Potato Markets Weekly

摘要

The planted area figures have given some encouragement to the RMX Hanover futures market, where the April 2009 processing contract closed today at EUR159/tonne. But growing conditions are currently near ideal and more pressure can be expected unless aheat wave re-establishes itself. The EU ware export boom extended into April, with sales by the top 11 exporters rising by 24.1% to 633 025 tonnes. But these sales were worth only EUR125.9 million, 12% less than in April last year. Cumulative UK ware exports up to May were around 20% down on last season but the value decline is much less because of the weakness of sterling. June figures confirm the shrinkage of the Dutch ware trade deficit.