Potato crop continues to fall

The Dutch potato harvest totalled six billion kilos in 2006, an 8% drop on 2005 which in turn was 9% lower than 2004. The increase in potato prices last year helped offset the fall in potato farmers’ incomes, which fell 3%, the national statistics office CBS said.

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