EEUU: Maine: Retail potato sales help offset losses
The start of the pandemic had little impact on Maine’s 2019 potato crop. Don Flannery, Executive Director of the Maine Potato Board, stated: ...
...“There was always a strong market on the chip side for the ’19 crop, as well as the fresh side. People started staying home and buying potatoes to eat at home again, so that was very, very good for the crop - for the ’19 crop.”
However, by fall, many schools and businesses remained closed, which caused concern about moving the 2020 crop.
“We were all nervous. There was a lot of potatoes in storage. Potatoes are a perishable product, they have a shelf life, so, you know, we needed to be creative, be innovative, in partnership with the government to, you know, move this crop or the 2020 crop,” Dominic LaJoie, President of the National Potato Council told wagmtv.com.
“There’s been great demand at retail level. Retail level and the chip industry had great demand all through this, which, you know, people were shopping more for groceries and so forth, and then bringing potatoes home to eat,” says LaJoie, as retail sales have helped make up for lost sales elsewhere.
Fuente: https://www.freshplaza.com/article/9302233/maine-retail-potato-sales-help-offset-losses/
