THE extent of losses to the 2007 potato crop from flood, waterlogging and blight is provisionally estimated at 3,300 hectares (2.6 per cent of total plantings).
Hardest hit areas are from Herefordshire and Shropshire, across to Nottinghamshire and Norfolk and up to Lincolnshire, East Yorkshire and North Yorkshire, says the British Potato Council. The full extent of wastage is expected to be revealed once harvest gains pace next month.
