Top-5 potato producers in the EU

The EU countries harvested 55.3 million tons of potatoes last year. Germany became the leader in production. It is reported by Euroweeklynews.com. Thus, Germany accounted for 21.2% of the volume in the EU, followed by Poland (16.4%), France (15.7%), the Netherlands (12.7%) and Belgium (7.2%). These five accounted for almost 75% of the total potato production in the EU. In addition to exporting and trading raw potatoes for food and seed, in Europe, crops are processed into four main types of products: frozen potatoes (mostly fries), prepared or canned potatoes (chips), dried potatoes, and potato ...