Export of seed potatoes rumbles to a new record in the Netherlands

The 2015, 2016 and 2017 harvest years provided the Dutch seed potato sector with high sales figures in terms of volumes. Exports flourished with volumes ranging from 810,000 to 825,000 tons. That success was surpassed this year with higher kilo prices than in that period. Read more below the chart Germany is the largest buyer of Dutch seed potatoes Germany is just the largest buyer of Dutch seed potatoes with more than 121,000 tonnes. Last year, Germany was already the most important customer with an import of just over 112,000 tonnes. This made Germany the third hundred thousand tonner for the Dutch seed potato sector. Algeria already reached that milestone more than ten years ago and in recent years Belgium has already surpassed this limit four times (after harvest 2016, 2017, 2018 and harvest 2020). This year, the Belgians are hardly inferior to the Germans with a decrease that just missed 121,000 tonnes. Algeria is the number three this year with an import of almost 90,000 ...