News on Potato Stats, Trade, Prices

Provincial Minister for Agriculture, Dr. Farrukh Javed has said that Pakistan is capable of exporting up to one million tons of potato because of its bumper crop this year.

A bumper crop, coupled with weak demand from other States, has led to a free-fall in potatoes prices in West Bengal.

The president of the Potato Growers Association (Asopapa) of the state of Carabobo (Venezuela), Aldemaro Ortega, said the price per kilo, for the potato processing companies, had been set at 40 bolivars.

Better relationships between UK potato growers and the rest of the supply chain are needed if the sector is to cope with its current downturn.

The Indian government has decided to remove the minimum export price of potato as its availability has increased and prices have eased in domestic markets.

Columbia Basin potato processors slowed down during the West Coast port impasse, making fewer potatoes into french fries, hash browns and other potato products shipped around the world.

The Cuban western province of Matanzas, one of the largest producers of potatoes in the country, will almost double potato yields during the present harvest, according to Agriculture officials.

Domestic potato production could amount to 4.5 million tons this year, said the president of the Peruvian National Potato Producers Coordinator (Corpapa), Edilberto Soto Tenorio.

Idaho is currently confronted with the unusual situation that large Russet potatoes are far more expensive than small Russets and the price gap is only increasing.

El gobierno quiere importar papas cultivadas en el norte ecuatoriano donde existe gran producción y alta calidad del tubérculo. Para lograrlo buscará establecer acuerdos y determinar las necesidades de consumo de la isla.

Europatat, the European Potato Trade Association, and DKHV, the German Potato Trading Association (Deutscher Kartoffelhandelsverband), are pleased to announce the dates for the annual Europatat Congress, that this year will take place in Düsseldorf (Germany) from 7 to 9 May 2015.

Over the last two years, Armenia’s potato exports have risen considerably and now exceed the countries potato import.

Production estimates in North-Western Europe, already known to be strong, have seen upwards revisions following the receipt of additional yield data - now exceeding 28Mt from a record 547,000ha.

Unstable prices for agriculture have turned two British farmers into potato chip producers: Here is how childhood friends Rod Garnham and Ross Taylor established Corkers Crisps.

Effective immediately, new requirements are in place for exporting potatoes from Prince Edward Island (PEI) to the United States (U.S.).

A former Potato Growers of Idaho executive director believes Idaho’s capacity to produce and pack potatoes has outgrown the market, at the expense of growers.

Kenya loses Sh19 billion annually due to poor production and processing of potatoes, a 2014 study has revealed.

Romain Cools, secretary of the Belgian Potato Processors Association Belgapom expresses his views on the free potato market.