The netherlands makes most of the chips Metronieuws.nl

the Netherlands manufactures and sells the most diepvriespatat and other frozen potato products from Europe. That is according to figures from the Central Statistical Office.

In Europe was last year for 3.8 billion euros diepvriespatat produced. Approximately a third of that, almost 1.3 billion euros, came from Dutch producers. Translated, this is over 1.6 billion pounds of French fries: in other words, ten puntzakken per Dutchman per week.

most of The Dutch potato products such as rösti, French fries and potato croquettes to go to the United Kingdom. Produces the country’s many frozen potato products, so it was in 2014 responsible for 15,7 percent of the entire European production. There is also a lot of imported from other countries. So the United Kingdom is a quarter of the Dutch production. Also in Germany, France, Saudi Arabia and Italy they are crazy about frozen French fries, croquettes and rösti on Dutch soil. For 2015, the figures are not yet known.

love Belgian fries

Despite the fact that the Netherlands a lot of frozen potato products manufactures, we also import much from abroad. Three quarters of them came from the frietland Belgium. Last year we bought for 175 million euros to Belgian diepvriesaardappelproducten. Is the half destined for the Dutch market, the rest is exported to other countries.

for now, Holland is the largest producer of frozen potato products in Europe. The question is how long we are in position to know. Belgium is responsible for a 23.6 per cent of the total European production, and gets so closer to the lead. In addition there are a large part of the Dutch potatoes still in the ground because it is the last time little has rained. The result is that the soil is very dry, so there is not dug up.

Drought

The risk of lesser quality potatoes so far. “As long as it’s not raining and the soil is hard, would be digging up the potatoes too much damage”, says Bert Carpenter, a potato farmer in the province of Zeeland against the NOS. “But the longer we wait to harvest, the greater the chance that the potatoes, for example, by frost may become unusable.” However, there is only a few times in rain to be able dig. A harvest from October is not unusual.