The Potato Supply Chain in Europe

Avagro Oy is a company founded in 1990 specializing in cultivation machines and equipment for special crops such as vegetables, potatoes, and berries. The company's most important areas of expertise are irrigation and sprinkler systems for open fields, greenhouses, and green areas. 

Averis Seeds B.V. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Coöperatie Koninklijke Avebe U.A. Averis Seeds focuses on the development, propagation and trading of starch potato varieties, representing varieties that are grown in all starch potato growing areas in the Netherlands and Germany.

Aviko Potato is responsible for the purchase, logistics and quality management of all potatoes for the Aviko Group factories.

AVR is a Belgian manufacturer of a full range of machinery for the cultivation of potatoes as well as other bulbous and tuberous plants. From seed bed preparation, planting and ridging to haulm topping, harvesting and storing.

AWEX is a private Polish company purchasing, packing and distributing onions and potatoes.

B-hive Innovations Ltd is an agri-tech R&D company based in Lincoln. Their multidiscipline team of software developers, hardware engineers, scientists and project management professionals are working to bring new, innovative solutions

B&C Farming Ltd are award winning contract farmers and producers of high quality seed potatoes.

Since 1949 Badalini is the market innovations leader in the production of tailor made machines for biological agriculture.

Ballymakenny Farm Heritage and Speciality Potatoes Limited, established on March 28, 2017 is a potato grower selling directly to consumer located in Ireland.

Barbarie SAS is the leading european manufacturer of storage boxes and bins for the storage of potatoes, carrots, onions, other vegetables and fruits.

Bart's Potato Company is a family owned exporter of potatoes in Belgium.

BASF is the world's leading chemical company. Specific for the potato industry BASF is a provider of herbicides, insecticides and fungicides. BASF is developing GM potato varieties, e.g. for the potato starch industry. BASF is also a manufacturer of various food ingredients. 

Bauer is a manufacturer of irrigation, seperation and slurry technology as well as waste water management in non-agricultural sector.

Bavaria-Saat includes two independent divisions, which deal with the breeding of potato varieties (Bavaria-Saat GbR) as well as with the international distribution of plant and table potatoes (Bavaria-Saat Vertriebs GmbH).

Maison Bayard has been establishing unique and highly specialised expertise in Picardy’s Santerre region since 1910. It is run by enterprising farmers, Françoise and Bertrand Bayard, who rear Hampshire sheep and grow sugar beet, high quality cereals and potatoes.

Bayer CropScience is with annual sales of about EUR 5.8 billion one of the world's leading innovative cropscience companies in the area of crop protection (Crop Protection), non agricultural pest-control (Environmental Science), seeds and plant biotechnology (BioScience).

It's a public Body representing the professions of Bavarian Agriculture and Forestry. In 1947/48 a separate rural women's group was founded in the BBV in order to be able to effectively represent the interests of rural women.

Bejo is a leading company in breeding, production and sales of vegetable seeds, with operations in more than thirty countries.