After processing their last batches of the prior season potatoes, Royal Avebe’s experts talked recently about a starch percentage at an average of 20.6%.
“Last week, on Thursday, May 12, we processed the last potatoes of the potato season; a season that completely went to plan. The quality of the potatoes is good with an average starch percentage of 20.6%, which is 1% more than for the potatoes from 2020-2021,” the company’s officials wrote in a recent press release.
They added that their tare percentage – the soil that comes with the potatoes from the land to the factory – was around 5% this year, and was just a little higher than last year.
“Meanwhile, almost all the starch potatoes for the next harvest have been planted, and the first potato shoots are above the ground. On the sites this period is used for regular maintenance, to make sure they are ready for the new season,” according to the same press release.
Avebe is a market-oriented cooperative of starch potato farmers which concentrates on extracting starch and protein from potatoes. Their membership has a total of 2,249 growers. The company increased its turnover by EUR75m Euro by growing food ingredients and by reducing its impact on the environment by 12%.
