Indonesia buys German & US potatoes, imports rise crazy

Fresh Common Potato

Vegetables

Indonesia

Published Feb 16, 2023

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Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia - Potatoes are one of the commodities imported by Indonesia from various countries in January 2023. In fact, there was a rapid spike earlier this year compared to January 2022. Based on import data for certain food commodities from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), imports of potatoes at the beginning of this year 7.16 million kilograms. Up 282.81% compared to January 2022 of 1.87 million kilograms (yoy). However, when compared to the realization of potato imports in the previous month or December 2022 which amounted to 7.69 million kilograms, potato imports in January 2023 fell 6.84% (mtm). Based on country of origin, most of the potatoes were imported in January 2023 from Germany as much as 2.85 million kilograms, up 1,174% yoy and down 56.58% mtm. Then from Canada 2.85 million kilograms, up 32.64% yoy and 119.8% mtm. Meanwhile, imports from the United States were recorded at 2.15 million kilograms, an increase of 765.05% mtm, while yoy was not recorded because there were no records of imports of potatoes from America.

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Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia - Potatoes are one of the commodities imported by Indonesia to various countries in January 2023. In fact, there was a rapid increase earlier this year compared to January 2022. Based on import data for certain food commodities from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), potato imports at the beginning of this year were 7.16 million kilograms. Up 282.81% compared to January 2022 of 1.87 million kilograms (yoy). However, when compared to the realization of potato imports in the previous month or December 2022 which amounted to 7.69 million kilograms, potato imports in January 2023 fell 6.84% (mtm). Based on country of origin, most of the potatoes were imported in January 2023 from Germany as much as 2.85 million kilograms, up 1,174% yoy and down 56.58% mtm. Then from Canada 2.85 million kilograms, up 32.64% yoy and 119.8% mtm. Meanwhile, imports from the United States were recorded at 2.15 million kilograms, an increase of 765.05% mtm, while yoy was not ...

Source: Cnbcindonesia