Export of potatoes from Poland in the 1st quarter of 2021

2021-06-09 11:21

The volume of potato exports (category 070190 - Potatoes, fresh or chilled, excluding seed potatoes) in the first quarter of 2021 amounted to 55.2 thousand tonnes, and its value to 29.8 million PLN. This means record-high exports in this category, especially in terms of volume (more than double the volume of the entire previous year). Let us add that this growth was generated mainly by one country.

In the first quarter of 2020, exports in this category amounted to 6.7 thousand tonnes and PLN 9.1 million. This means a year-on-year increase in volume by 48.5 thousand tonnes, i.e. by 724.2%, and an increase in value by PLN 20.7 million, i.e. by as much as 227.7%.

The average price of potatoes exported from Poland in the first quarter of 2021 was at the level of 0.54 PLN/kg. In the same period of 2020 it was 1.36 PLN/kg, which means a 60.3 per cent decrease of an average price year-to-year.

In terms of changes in the geographical structure of potato exports between the first quarter of 2020 and the corresponding period of 2021, these were fundamental.

Ukraine entered the first place from the seventh, increasing the volume of potatoes purchased in Poland from 0.2 to 49.5 thousand tonnes.

Moldova has risen to second place from fourth, increasing its volume from 0.5 to 2.2 thousand tonnes.

The third position was occupied by Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was absent the previous year, with a volume of 1.3 thousand tonnes.

Germany moved up to fourth place from tenth, increasing its purchases from 52 tonnes to 0.7 thousand tonnes.

The United Kingdom dropped to fifth place from second place with a volume decrease from 1.6 to 0.6 thousand tonnes.

Outside the top five are two countries that were in the top three a year ago:

Romania dropped from first to sixth place with a volume reduction from 3.0 to 0.3 thousand tonnes,

Hungary went from third to seventh with a volume reduction from 0.6 to 0.2 thousand tonnes.

Among the top five buyers, potatoes exported in the first quarter of 2021 had the highest average price in the case of sales to Germany - PLN 2.86/kg, which seems overvalued compared to export prices to other countries. The cheapest potatoes were sold in the period in question to Ukraine - at an average of PLN 0.48/kg.

Kraj	Masa [kg]	Wartość [PLN]	Wartość [EUR]	Wartość [USD]
Belgia	25 196	45 913	10 177	12 342
Białoruś	21 000	8 203	1 823	2 200
Bośnia i Hercegowina	1 302 000	1 271 289	281 761	340 978
Czechy	2 139	3 342	743	906
Estonia	7 575	17 397	3 854	4 665
Holandia	70 026	158 442	35 136	42 607
Irlandia	67 081	120 738	26 772	32 443
Litwa	43 675	92 715	20 549	24 860
Luksemburg	43	131	29	35
Łotwa	5 475	12 418	2 750	3 330
Mołdawia	2 239 050	1 149 645	254 963	308 772
Niemcy	713 733	2 039 207	451 667	547 688
Rumunia	333 924	122 405	27 131	32 984
Słowacja	57 546	36 528	8 114	9 828
Szwecja	2 950	4 932	1 094	1 325
Ukraina	49 527 244	23 951 186	5 312 888	6 434 684
Węgry	234 760	164 349	36 440	44 263
Wielka Brytania	569 982	583 670	129 436	156 892
RAZEM	55 223 399	29 782 510	6 605 327	8 000 802

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