France: A record year looms for fresh potato exports

Potatoes from France sell well abroad! At the end of March, the date of the last available readings, all European markets remained active. Southern Europe (Italy, Greece, etc.), Northern Europe (United Kingdom, Netherlands, Germany, etc.) and Eastern Europe still order French potatoes. From August 2023 to March 2024, 1.82 million tonnes were exported. Spain, even if its purchases fell by 3% compared to the same period of the previous year, remains France's leading customer with 528,947 t purchased, followed by Belgium (472,926 t, + 1%). , Italy (246,648 t, + 20%), Eastern Europe (163,923 t, + 27%) and Portugal (134,120 t, - 3%). In March, Spain, Belgium and Eastern countries continued their purchases, but Greece, Austria, Switzerland and Ireland also enlivened the market. “The volumes exported this month to the United Kingdom, at 2,783 t, are clearly becoming significant again, whereas they had almost disappeared at this time of the year, since Brexit,” underlines the CNIPT, the ...