This year, Moldova, like some other countries in the Black Sea region, will have a high potato yield, reports EastFruit. However, prices have already fallen to their lowest level in the past three years, and the outlook for farmers is bleak. As noted in a comment for Logos Press by expert from IM "Expert Agroteh" SRL, Sergey Alba, in a significant number of specialized potato farms, the yield of potatoes was around 70-80 tons/ha. That is, the marketable resource for the current marketing year of large agricultural enterprises amounts to many tens (if not a hundred) of thousands of tons of potatoes. The dynamics of agricultural land in Moldova's potato sector have been negative for many years. According to official data, over the previous five years, the area under potatoes has decreased from 24 to 19 thousand hectares. But even if we assume that potato plantations this year have decreased to about 15 thousand hectares, of which only a third is in professional farms, local potato ...