Kartoffeln Cockpit, 14.07.2017

(AMI) cultivation expansion and possibly slightly higher yields in the west of the EU expect more potatoes. The cultivation area with potatoes reached a preliminary low in the EU in 2015 with 1.688 million ha. Since then, things are moving uphill again. In a recent compilation of previously published data from the individual member states, the AMI determined an increase of about 3% or 45,000 hectares compared to 2016. This adds up to this year's potato area to 1.758 million ha Overall, the increase is concentrated in Western and Central Europe, where statisticians each show an area expansion of 4 to 5%. In 2016 the potato yield in the EU was still relatively high at 330 dt / ha. But that does not say much, decisive for the market is where the potatoes grow. In 2016, the income from the north-east to the south-east of the EU was very high with Poland, where a record was received. In Western Europe, however, yields remained below average. The coming weeks are of decisive importance for the mass growth, ie, the development of the earnings of the chiefs.If it remains dry and too warm, as it was in 2016 from July to September, it will probably return below average yields in Western Europe. The records in the East do not seem to be set again, so that the whole area could be harvested as much as in 2016 throughout the EU. This would be a little more on the local regions. If, on the other hand, favorable weather still prevails for potato growth, there will be significantly more potatoes from France to Germany.