European Potato Markets

摘要

France (p2): 2006 ware plantings expected down; French harvest expansion confined to maincrop; Exports support firm ware market; Imported earlies market quiet; Stable processing market; Household purchasing dips again; Record trade surplus in first harf 2005/06; Fries sales lead processing recovery; Germany (p7): Harvest estimate raised by 466 000t; Old-crop tubers still in demand; How sustainable is organic potato boom? Feb. consumption below 100 000t; Shrinking trade in potatoes, fries; EU (p13): Good prospects for early markets; 2006/07 contract prices too low, says NEPG; Dutch funding for development of GM blight-resistant potato; BASF to launch transgenic non-food starch potato; McDonald's internet food ads criticised; Europatat congress in Copenhagen; GB (p!8): Harvest below 6mt becoming the norm; Revisions to earlier stocks estimates; Strong upward price trend; Plantings slipping behind; Imports surge; Yield variation in Eastern Counties results; Two M&S suppliers join forces: Manor Fresh; Snacks group reviews Tayto crisp business; DARD puts detention order on unlabelled Rooster sent to ROI; Complaints over Walkers crisps claims; New growing food trend; Netherlands (p23): Processor strategy to boost December usage; Processing market stabilising; April contract steadies; Ware trade further in red in February...following shrinking trade deficit in Aug.-Dec.; Fry exports down in Dec.; Seed exporters replacing lost Algerian sales; Avebe rescue plan agreed; Dutch government allocates 3m EUR togenome project; Belgium (p32): Definitive figures add 127 OOOt to 2005 estimate; Stocks confirmed 5.5% below 3-year average; Fry exports reach peak; Spain (p34): Middle crop plantings up 1%; Old-crop prices heading for 500/t EUR; 2005 harvest put at 2.604mt; New East European markets for Andalusia; Record French ware exports to Spain in January; Portugal (p37): Reduced supply of earlies; Ware import trade unexceptional; Israel (p38): Export satisfaction despite 'difficult' UK market; Italy (p39): Rain delaying lifting in Sicily; Czech Rep. (p39): First positive trade balance for years in 2005; Prices continue to rise; Poland (p40): Ware imports keeping market alive; Lithuania (p42): Planting intentions not yet clear, but delay certain; Ireland (p42): Maincrop planting delayed by rain; Almost unanimous rejection of proposed GM trial; Sweden (p43): Early potatoes may be late, expensive; Switzerland (p41): 2005 an 'average' year for small-scale producers; Producers' union rejects SwissGAP as too expensive; Large purchasers specify IP-SUISSE potatoes; Australia (p44): New markets for Simplot growers; India (p44): Frost, area cutbacks limit 2005/06 output; High prices since Nov.; Peru (p46): Farmers petition Syngenta Ukraine (p47): Egyptian, Lebanese, Polish imports; USA (p47): United Potato Growers moves from Idaho to Utah.