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World Potato Congress announces new director from P.E.I.

Greg Donald, the general manager of the P.E.I. Potato Board since 2009, has been announced as a new member for the Word Potato Congress’s board of directors.

“The World Potato Congress is pleased to welcome Greg Donald to its board. Mr. Donald brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in the potato sector and will be a great asset to the board of directors,” said Romain Cools, president of the World Potato Congress, in a released statement.

The P.E.I. Potato Board represents P.E.I. potato producers through marketing, advocating, negotiation and activities that support potato production. The province is the top potato producing province in Canada and over 86,000 acres of potatoes are grown on the Island each year.

Greg has a BSc. degree in agriculture with a major in plant protection from Dalhousie University. He also attended the University of New Brunswick and obtained a master’s in business administration.

Greg has over twenty five years of experience in the potato industry, including five years with McCain Foods in New Brunswick in the area of agronomy, potato production, potato procurement and green crop field management. He then spent more than 14 years in progressively responsible management positions in the agricultural crop input business in Atlantic Canada and Maine with the Cavendish Group.

Greg also participates in a number of local and industry organizations including as a director with the Kensington North Watershed Association, a member of the Prince Edward Island Institute of Agrologists, a director with the Food Island Partnership, a director of the Farm and Food Care P.E.I., a director with the P.E.I. Farming 4R Island, a director of the Canadian Potato Council and a director of the United Potato Growers of Canada. Greg has recently completed the Nuffield Scholar Program (an international agricultural adult education program) that included a study of the Potato industry in Belgium (processing focus), Holland (seed focus) and the U.K. (fresh focus).