Free potatoes stirred up spirits in Germany

These days, German agricultural associations and farmers have rebelled against a local company's decision to distribute 4000 tons of potatoes for free. This step has provoked joy among consumers and heated disputes among producers who were not at all pleased, we learn from the German agricultural website Agrarheute. Bulgarian cheese and kashkaval that travel the world The reason for the unprecedented action lies in the extremely strong potato harvest in Germany last year. The large yields led to overflowing warehouses, and the processing industry began to withdraw from already agreed quantities. In a number of cases, traders and processors have terminated or restricted contracts for the purchase of potatoes intended for chips and French fries, leaving producers with huge quantities of unsold produce. This is the situation in which the company Osterland Agrar from Saxony falls. The firm has about 4000 tons of potatoes produced under a processing contract, which was subsequently ...