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Potato exports from Poland in 2020 based on CSO data

2021-02-23 11:28
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

 
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