Anyone who had predicted a few weeks ago that the potato market would fall below €20 would have been called crazy, and even more so that the market would fall back to €10. And yet, the unthinkable happened.
The province of Mostaganem recorded a "record" yield for the harvest of early and seasonal potatoes for the 2024-2025 agricultural season, the wilaya services indicated on Tuesday.
For the second consecutive year seed potato availability is an issue for UK potato growers.
Icelandic farmers experienced one of their worst potato harvests in over three decades. In 2024, they harvested 5,514 tons, according to Statistics Iceland, a significant decrease from the 7,298 tons harvested the year before.
The rains are taking their toll on the region, flooding crops. Cereal crops are the most affected, although the flooding is also affecting potato crops.
COAG has denounced the "distribution chains" flooding shelves with potatoes from Israel and Egypt in the midst of the new potato campaign in Murcia and Andalusia "to delay the purchase of domestic produce, saturate the market, and force a decline in
They emphasized that prices will drop again by the end of the year, and small and medium-sized producers will be the worst affected.
The average tonnes per hectare there is 12.5, which places the state favorably above the national average.
