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The Working Group on Potato Consumption (WCA) of the Dutch Arable Farmers' Union (NAV) has calculated that the cost price for potato growers will increase significantly for the coming season. According to the WCA, the potato industry will have to come up with an increase in the contract price again this year to keep pace with the cost price of French fry potato growers.

The sale of extra-early varieties has already begun in the south of Spain, which has sown a good part of the area that was planned. After a spring of 2024 with seed problems, due to scarcity and excessive size, doubts now arise about health. The rains have barely given a break in the main production areas of Europe, from the north of France and Belgium to the southern half of Germany. Just as in the production areas of Palencia and Burgos, it has not stopped raining since August. Many tubers are rotten due to the rains and may affect the sowings of the Peninsula. "In some cases, the seed potato has been harvested with humidity and it will cause problems," says the agricultural engineer and consultant Fernando Alonso Arce, for whom "it is to be expected that the sowings in the south will have sufficient seed, but as the plantations move northwards the situation will be complicated."

The processing of domestic potatoes in Dutch factories has fallen by 20 percent. This is evident from figures from the Association for the Potato Processing Industry (Vavi).