The volume of potato exports (category 070190 - Potatoes, fresh or chilled, excluding seed potatoes) in 2020 amounted to 26.2 thousand tonnes and its value to PLN 26.3 million. This means a decline in exports in this category, especially in value terms. Let us also add the important detail that after three quarters of 2020, these exports amounted to only 14 thousand tonnes, so the last quarter of the year accounted for almost half of total potato exports.
In 2019, exports in this category amounted to 26.3 thousand tonnes and PLN 44.2 million. This means a year-on-year decrease in volume by just 95 tonnes, or 0.4 per cent, and a decrease in value by PLN 17.9 million, or as much as 40.4 per cent.
The average price of potatoes exported from Poland was at PLN 1.00/kg in 2020, with potatoes classified as new potatoes exported up to 30 June (CN category 07019050) having an average price of PLN 2.20/kg, and others (CN category 07019090) having a price of PLN 0.91/kg. In the corresponding period of 2019, it was 1.68 zlotys/kg (2.04 zlotys/kg for new potatoes and 1.60 zlotys/kg for others, respectively), which means a year-on-year decrease in the average price by 40.5 per cent. It is worth mentioning here that in 2019 the share of potatoes designated as CN 07019050 (new potatoes) amounted to nearly 18 per cent in total potato exports, and in the same period of 2020 it fell to 7 per cent.
As for the changes in the geographical structure of potato exports between 2019 and 2020, they were significant.
First of all, there was a change in the first place. Ukraine was promoted to the leading position and from as high as fourteenth place by increasing the volume of potatoes purchased in Poland from 0.3 to 12.5 thousand tonnes.
As a result, Romania dropped from first to second place, especially as the volume decreased from 13.1 to just 3.3 thousand tonnes.
Great Britain dropped to third place from second despite a volume increase from 2.1 to 2.9 thousand tonnes.
Moldova came fourth from seventh place with an increase in volume from 1.2 to 2.3 thousand tonnes.
Hungary remained in fifth place with a reduction in volume from 1.5 to 0.9 thousand tonnes.
Outside the top five are: Germany (down from third to eleventh place) with a volume decrease from 1.9 to 0.4 thousand tonnes and Lithuania (down from fourth to sixth place) with a volume reduction from 1.6 to 0.8 thousand tonnes.
Among the top five buyers, potatoes exported in 2020 had the highest average price for sales to the UK at £1.77/kg. However, it should be noted that nearly 30 per cent of the potatoes that went to this country were new potatoes with an average price of £2.57/kg. For the remainder it was £1.43/kg, which was still higher than in other cases. The lowest average price in this period was for potatoes exported to Ukraine - PLN 0.57/kg and to Moldova - PLN 0.65/kg.
country/area
|
quantity
[kg]
|
value
[PLN]
|
value
[EUR]
|
value
[USD]
|
Austria
|
20
|
40
|
9
|
10
|
Arctica
|
510
|
3 369
|
753
|
895
|
Belgium
|
144 705
|
290 831
|
65 573
|
73 414
|
Bulgaria
|
23 115
|
7 220
|
1 574
|
1 865
|
Czech Republic
|
356 324
|
896 540
|
203 919
|
222 798
|
Denmark
|
5 562
|
20 503
|
4 778
|
5 175
|
Estonia
|
24 750
|
49 979
|
11 069
|
12 089
|
France
|
20 703
|
26 307
|
5 777
|
6 323
|
Greece
|
84 470
|
99 318
|
21 910
|
23 797
|
The Netherlands
|
513 621
|
1 079 071
|
243 158
|
272 771
|
Ireland
|
422 088
|
858 155
|
193 677
|
216 595
|
Iceland
|
300
|
268
|
58
|
70
|
Lithuania
|
817 093
|
1 454 764
|
321 824
|
351 381
|
Luxembourg
|
21 999
|
30 599
|
7 161
|
7 970
|
Latvia
|
806 594
|
1 008 142
|
223 441
|
245 617
|
Moldova
|
2 340 435
|
1 516 100
|
340 680
|
382 602
|
Germany
|
415 487
|
767 205
|
170 694
|
197 105
|
Norway
|
475
|
3 854
|
854
|
953
|
Romania
|
3 264 944
|
3 920 247
|
918 272
|
1 011 812
|
Slovakia
|
574 008
|
855 589
|
194 485
|
218 081
|
Sweeden
|
11 169
|
24 290
|
5 456
|
6 154
|
Ukraine
|
12 493 560
|
7 166 563
|
1 593 023
|
1 831 439
|
Hungary
|
939 943
|
1 055 960
|
246 208
|
273 670
|
Great Britain
|
2 928 750
|
5 179 085
|
1 178 932
|
1 319 463
|
Italy
|
22 578
|
29 900
|
6 596
|
7 164
|
TOTAL
|
26 233 203
|
26 343 899
|
5 959 881
|
6 689 213
|