UK farmers have reduced potato plantings to their lowest in at least a
decade, diverting from a general trend in Europe. Potato plantings in
Britain stand at 121,200 hectares, down marginally compared to the last
year though it would be the smallest area since at least 2003, and
represents the fifth drop in plantings in the last six years, the AHDB
crop bureau said in its first forecast for the 2013 crop.
It also
bucks the trend of a rise of some 3-4% estimated for Europe's big
northwestern potato growing countries as a whole, after poor harvests
last year in many regions, which have curtailed supplies and underpinned
prices.
In France, where processing potatoes rose more than
seven-fold in the year to the end of May, potato inventories were, at
the close of April, down 35% year on year, according to industry data.
Source by Commodity Insights
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