South Korea: Potato crops this fall are expected to be lower than last year

This year's fall potato production is expected to decrease compared to last year. The Korea Rural Economic Institute's Agricultural Observation Center recently announced through potato observation forecasts that this year's fall potato production will decrease by 6.4% compared to the previous year, to around 23,000 tons. The decrease compared to the average year will increase further to 13.4%. The Agricultural Observation Center pointed out that this year's fall potato crop was worse than last year as the reason for the decrease in production. It analyzed that the crop was not good compared to the previous month due to insufficient rainfall and sunlight in both the inland and Jeju. The inland area was affected by continuous rainfall from the sowing season to early November, and the Jeju area also had a poor crop due to heavy rain from late October to early November. Meanwhile, potato shipments in December are expected to increase by 7.5% compared to the previous year. This is ...