In Kenya, the potato sector is struggling with an inadequate supply of good quality seed potatoes for preferred varieties, leading to a reliance on propagating low-quality conventional seed potatoes.
The potato harvest in Morocco’s Doukkala region has just ended, but some farmers are unable to get satisfactory prices.
The Bangladesh Cold Storage Association (BCSA) has formally appealed to the government for an immediate cessation of potato imports to avert financial harm to local agriculturists.
From the 2024 harvest up to and including last December, 357,400 tons of consumption potatoes were sold from the Netherlands to foreign destinations. That is 14 percent less than last year over the same period.
Belgapom reports on January 24 a price of 250 euros/ton (excluding VAT) for the Fontane and Challenger varieties. That is the same price as last week.
Dutch potato processors processed a record amount of potatoes from abroad in December. The supply of Dutch potatoes to the factories was smaller than in previous years.
More and more Romanian farmers are giving up growing potatoes because the cost of seeds has doubled in recent years and labour is more expensive and difficult to find, according to producers.
After a short period of stability, potato sales prices in Ukraine have started to rise again, analysts of the EastFruit project report .
