1、Cedric PorterEditorWorld Potato Markets2024A European and global potato market perspectiveCedric Porter,Editor World Potato MarketsEssential weekly international potato and potato product trade,production and price information Hello from Austin Village,Birmingham,England.Named after Britains answer
2、to Henry Ford Herbert Austin!European potatoes in one slideFrom drought in 2022TOflooding in 2023The area in the four largest potato countries was up but only a littleEU-4=Germany,France,Belgium and Netherlands01020304050600100000200000300000400000500000600000201520162017201820192020202120222023pote
3、ntial2023actualTonnes/hectareHectaresEU-4 consumption potato area and planted yield.Source:NEPGHectaresTonnes/hectareProduction is only a little more than last year with some crop still to lift051015202530201520162017201820192020202120222023potential2023 actualNEPG production estimates in millions o
4、f tonnesPoland has its smallest crop ever with drought reducing production0500010000150002000025000300000001020304050607080910111213141516171819202122 23fPolish Potato production in 000s tonnes.Source:IERIGIZ-NRI&Staistics Poland The UK crop is also the smallest ever01,0002,0003,0004,0005,0006,0007,
5、0008,0009,000737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899000102030405060708091011121314151617181920212223?23?UK potato production in 000s tonnes.Source:Defra&WPMPrices have risen and are expected to go higher0100200300400500600700SONDJFMAMJJBelgapom average Fontane free-buy price in/tonne
6、18/1919/2020/2121/2222/2323/24There has been no drop off of processing yet0200400600800100012002017201820192020202120222023Belgian production of processed potato products in 000s tonnesFrozen processedproductsChips/crispsDehy050100150200250300350400JFMAMJJASONDMonthly Dutch processing potato usage(0