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Good demand for Dutch table potatoes, quiet export, and lockdown tension in the chip market

Fresh Common Potato
Netherlands
Published Nov 19, 2021

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Tholen - In the past, the Dutch potato packers mainly bought the potatoes where the prices were the lowest, according to Wim van de Ree, the domestic table potato market is increasingly influenced by the strong demand for Dutch products." You can also see it in the current quotations of 20 cents plus, which are higher than in France and Germany."

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Tholen - In the past, the Dutch potato packers mainly bought the potatoes where the prices were the lowest, according to Wim van de Ree, the domestic table potato market is increasingly influenced by the strong demand for Dutch product." You can also see it in the current quotations of 20 cents plus, which are higher than in France and Germany." "Those table potatoes must be suitable for laundry use and preferably PlanetProof certified, but then there are also more opportunities for Dutch growers and trade at a healthy price level. The slightly floury potatoes and the red potatoes are currently the runners-up," says the Nedato director. It is currently quiet on the export market. "We see fixed patterns within Europe. In Eastern Europe there is a low harvest, but those countries are currently real price buyers and we as the Netherlands hardly participate in that. The demand from Eastern Europe now mainly comes to Germany and partly to France, but I see demand for Dutch potatoes ...
Source: AGF
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