Hungary: with the exception of chips, the market for potato products has narrowed

When the potato market was preparing for 2020, no one even thought that a pandemic and related measures would completely rewrite trade plans. In Issue 4 of Horticulture and Viticulture, Kristóf Szabó details the effects of this on German and Polish processing and sheds light on the effects of Brexit. Now it also turns out our newspaper in the Belgian, Dutch and American markets, for example. In Belgium, the harvest period was rainy, so the risk of bacterial diseases is higher for seed potatoes and the accumulation of pests during storage will be spectacular. Sick, infected items can be filtered out during metal locking, but it is definitely recommended to look at the purchased goods better than usual when receiving them. There are also more dropped batches in table potatoes, but hopefully they won’t hit the market anymore. Since the outbreak, plants have been trying to continuously produce and refill all existing freezer storage facilities. Production of french fries did not ...