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Almost all potatoes in the main producing countries in North-Western Europe are behind the shelves. This is evident from the weekly harvest update of processor Aviko, which published the most recent figures on Friday 8 November.

Aeres Hogeschool Dronten has conducted research into the cultivation of New Zealand spinach in the context of the 'Saline cultivation' test garden. Various demonstration crops were carried out. The plant is robust, but cultivation has challenges such as slow germination and labour-intensive harvesting. Nevertheless, the crop offers opportunities for niche markets, such as sales to restaurants that are looking for sustainable and special ingredients.

The rains have hardly given any respite in the main production areas of Europe, from the north of France and Belgium to the southern half of Holland. Even in the production areas of Palencia and Burgos it has not stopped raining since August. Many tubers are rotten because of the rains and it may affect the sowings in the Peninsula, which will mainly begin in January, in the south. In some cases the seed potatoes have been harvested with humidity and it will cause problems. For the agricultural engineer and consultant Fernando Alonso Arce “it is to be expected that the sowings in the south of Spain will have sufficient seed, but as the plantations move northwards the situation will be complicated”. The last important areas to be sown are Galicia and Castilla y León. The situation may be of great importance, since the seed potatoes can only come from EU countries, for both agronomic and legal reasons. In fact, “only Switzerland has