Adding value to potato product

Less quantity, high quality, good adding value: this is the philosophy of our potato farmers. They are selling yearly 1.3 tons high-quality-potatoes to markets and customers (direct-marketing) as a cooperation of 9 farmers. With a perfect quality and a very good branding they are well known in Austria and people as restaurants like the "Sauwald-Potatoes".

Cooperation of farmers, quality-management in direct-marketing, branding and PR, local tourism-products around the potatoes

How to foster the quality and find creative ideas for further activities around the topic "potato". Next step: experiences in tourism based on a local food-product like potatoes.

Small rural areas, cooperation of farmers with high-quality approach, combination agriculture and tourism

Hungary, Italy, Slovenia, United Kingdom, Greece, Ireland, Sweden, Czech Republic, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Malta, Poland, Austria, Bulgaria, Estonia, Spain, Slovakia, Belgium, Germany, Finland, Romania, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Lithuania, Latvia

German, English

Agriculture, Tourism

16/02/2011