Ukrainians will have to chew industrial potatoes from all over the world
Ukrainian households are growing fewer and fewer potatoes, and farmers are unable to increase their production volumes, so there is already a shortage of potatoes in the country.
Ukraine has begun to purchase technical grade potatoes abroad, and its imports will grow.
Chairman of the Association of Retail Chain Suppliers Alexey Doroshenko stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Who grows vegetables for us? Mostly farmers, potatoes - mostly households. Every year they can plant and harvest less and less. This year we may again turn from an importer into an exporter for onions, but for potatoes there are no positive forecasts yet.
There are only 5% of industrial potato producers, 95% of producers are vegetable gardens. People grew potatoes regardless of their cost. Now they cannot compete with farmers, more and more of it is grown industrially and in the absence of loans, I don’t know how many years it will take for farmers to grow all the potatoes they need.
Therefore, our reality will be potatoes of technical varieties from all countries of the world,” summed up Alexey Doroshenko.
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