Potato Council predicts production surge

16 July 1999

Potato Council predicts production surge

THE British Potato Council predicts on the back of a survey that there will be a 4.7% increase in the total area planted with potatoes this year.

That would take the area up from 136,838 ha (343,063 acres) last year to 143,233 (353,923 acres).

• Ware spuds keep on drifting, FWi, yesterday (15 July, 1999)
  
• Plantings boost to turn screw on spud prices?, FWi, 25 May, 1999

• The Herald 16/07/99 page 29 (In Brief)