Estadísticas, Comercio y Precios de las Papas

We can now confirm that INTERPOM will go ahead! From 28 to 30 November 2021, the global potato sector will be able to gather in Kortrijk Xpo, as it used to do in the past.

No one could miss it in the media last year: the COVID-19 pandemic hit the Belgian potato sector hard.

Luik Natie opened a new cold store at the beginning of 2019. Just under two years later, the opening of a new frozen storage area is planned.

With a new board, Belgapom starts its new search for a successor to Romain Cools as CEO of the Belgian potato trade and processing industry

The European Potato Trade Association Europatat has appointed Romans Vorss as the new Technical Affairs Director of the Association, with effect as of 26 October 2020.

La semana pasada, la Asociación de Patata de Europa noroccidental (NEPG), que agrupa a los productores de Francia, Alemania, Países Bajos, Reino Unido y Bélgica, anunció la estimación de la cosecha de patatas para la temporada 2020/21.

El NEPG (Productores de Papa de Europa Noroccidental) ha estimado que el total de los rendimientos de papa de consumo están en el nivel promedio de 5 años.

The Board of Europatat, the European Potato Trade Association, is pleased to announce the appointment of Berta Redondo Benito as the new Secretary-General of the association, with effect as of 1st of September 2020.

La fuerte bajada de la demanda de producto en los restaurantes, bares y hoteles que habrían caído en un 50/60% y el descenso de la demanda de la exportación está provocando que la industria mundial de procesamiento de patata ha reducido su capacidad y necesidad de materia prima. Probablemente no se procesen más de 2 millones de toneladas solo en los países productores de patata que agrupa NEPG en el continente: Francia, Bélgica, Alemania y Holanda.

Last year, despite the difficult growing conditions as a result of the extreme heat and drought during both the 2018-2019 and the 2019-2020 seasons, the Belgian potato-processing industry once again improved the record for processed potatoes.

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has dealt a blow to a, particularly Belgian market, as the country begins to see declining sales of the humble fries.

Due to COVID-19 the free market of potatoes has completely collapsed. The PCA/Fiwap and the Belgapom price quotation has been suspended because of a lack of transactions on the free market of potatoes.

En vista del comienzo de las negociaciones para una nueva asociación entre la UE y el Reino Unido, Europatat, la asociación que aglutina a la industria de la patata comunitaria, ha enviado un documento de posición al equipo de negociación UE-Reino Unido.

The NEPG (North-Western European Potato Growers) have released a new potato production estimate for consumption potatoes in the leading 5 North-Western potato countries. If all potatoes will be lifted totally about 26.9 million tons will be harvested.

El NEPG, asociación que agrupa a los productores de patata del noroeste de Europa (Alemania, Francia, Holanda, Bélgica y el Reino Unido) estima la producción para 2019 entre 27 y 27,3 millones de toneladas.

On 4 and 5 September the international potato fair PotatoEurope 2019 will take place in
Tournai. That the fair continues to grow is demonstrated by the fact that there are almost
20% more exhibitors from 17 different countries.

Sobre la base de una estimación provisional de los NEPG (cultivadores de papas del noroeste de Europa), el área en los 5 países más grandes de papas aumentó a 609,000 ha de papas de consumo, lo que representa un aumento del 2.4%.

The NEPG (North-Western European Potato Growers) have estimated that the upcoming area for
consumption potatoes in 2019 will increase between 1 and 2 % towards almost 604.000 ha in the 5
main production countries.