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Researchers from eight Asian countries — Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, the Philippines, and Vietnam — convened in Hanoi on October 2, 2026, to launch a new regional forum on root and tuber crop production systems,…
The Dominican Republic produced 2,871,185 quintals of potatoes in 2025, up 5.4%, the Ministry of Agriculture says. Constanza holds about 44,000 of 55,000 tareas, and seed is still imported.
Spain's potato sector is advancing on two fronts: regional efforts to add value through origin labeling, and private investment in cutting-edge storage and processing infrastructure. In Castilla y León — which produces roughly half of Spain's 1.94…
Bulgaria's potato sector is mired in a severe structural crisis, with producers reporting overflowing storage facilities where thousands of tonnes remain unsold due to continued dumping of cheaper imports from Germany, France, and Poland. According to Todor…
Thailand expected 120,854 tonnes of potatoes in 2025 from 40,455 rai, the Office of Agricultural Economics says. In the north, 85% of the potato area grows varieties for processing under contract.
The Philippines harvested 102,790.84 tonnes of potatoes in 2024, up 2.73%, the Philippine Statistics Authority reports. Benguet alone produced 76,487 tonnes at 21.10 t/ha.
France’s potato sector is responding to a season of extreme weather and structural adjustment with major investments in storage infrastructure and processing capacity. In Normandy, the Creully cooperative inaugurated a new 10,000-tonne refrigerated storage facility in September…
Iraq's statistics body puts the 2025 potato crop at 186,147 tonnes on 31,579 dunums, down from 674,800 tonnes on 96,500 dunums in 2020. The data exclude the Kurdistan Region.
Algeria's government has intervened in the rapidly rising cost of one of the country's staple foods, potatoes, following weeks of sharp price increases. While a kilogram of potatoes normally costs consumers 50–70 dinars, prices have now exceeded…
Iraq's potato harvest moved sharply towards the spring season in 2025. Spring output rose to 122,921 tonnes, while the autumn crop fell to 63,226 tonnes as its yield dropped to 3,977 kg per dunum.
Israel plants about 180,000 dunams (18,000 hectares) of potatoes a year and exported 169,407 tonnes in 2023, according to a sector plan of the Vegetable Growers Organization.
Norway’s potato sector is currently defined by two parallel narratives: an unusually comfortable supply situation in storage, and a forward-looking research push to secure future production through advanced breeding. According to the latest stock counts from the…
