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Sunday, January 09, 2022 

Covid19 crisis leads to global potato shortage

The worldwide Corona crisis has led to a shortage of potatoes, certainly from the USA:
Fast food restaurants across the world are experiencing a shortage of french fries.

The United States is one of the top producers of potatoes globally — but lockdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic forced U.S. farmers to destroy hundreds of tons of potatoes in 2020, and the supply has not fully recovered. On top of that, supply chain issues have hampered the exports of this year’s crop. These issues have led to fast food chains from Kenya to Japan scaling back on french fry orders or even running out of them.

Japan is the largest overseas market for U.S. potatoes, accounting for $342 million in exports, according to the US Department of Agriculture. Frozen potato products like french fries account for nearly two-thirds of those exports, more than $230 million in exports. Moreover, the United States is the “sole foreign supplier of fresh chipping potatoes in Japan.”
This is a huge mistake to rely solely on one country for potato supply for French fries and other potato-related products. One more reason why it's so atrocious China had to lead to this situation in the first place.

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