Record breaking potato trade in 2015 CU LTIVATION AND TECHNOLOGY are local companies, although others have teamed up with international companies with a number of North American and European processors signed up to joint ventures in China for instance. Countries such as Iran and India have also established fry plants and have started to export low volumes of product to neighbouring markets. Other potato products that performed well included chips and dehy that was up 6.0% to nearly €1.8 billion and flakes up 12.7% to €445 million. On the fresh side, exports of ware potatoes rose steadily by 5.6% to €2.202 billion, although there was a 11% drop in EU potato exports by volumes over the year. Seed exports were down by 9% in volume and nearly 10% in value to €678 million as growers cut back plantings due to reduced returns in 2014. The standout fresh performer has been sweet potatoes. The value of trade in sweet potatoes was up 41% to €262 million in 2015 driven by a 17% increase in the average price and a 20% increase in volume. Europe leads increase in world production Latest UN potato production figures show that world output was up 10 million tonnes to 385 million tonnes in 2014 with production in the main five EU countries up five million Full market and trade figures are available in the World Potato Markets 2016 Potato Market & Trade Review, which complements the weekly World Potato Markets service where Cedric Porter is managing editor. Packed full of more than 130 pages of information, the review is essential for all global potato professionals. For more information contact Cedric Porter at cedric.porter@agrimarkets.net or 0044 1892 543444 for a special offer for the review. Also see www.worldpotaotmarkets.com tonnes, a three million tonne increase in the rest of Europe and a two million tonne increase in Asia. Demand will grow fastest in Africa over the coming years because of its fast growing population, but output on the continent remained at 29 million tonnes in 2014, although that represents a nine million tonne increase since 2008. ● There is one star performer in world potato trade and that are frozen French fries. Potato World 2016 • number 2 47 Pagina 46
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