date:Nov 23, 2021
on as June and July brought unusually high temperatures and drought. As a result, FAS/Tokyo estimates Japans MY 2021/22 potato production to drop a further 18 percent to 1,800,000 MT.
Consumption
MAFF categorizes Japans fresh potato use by sector into processing, table potato, starch potato, feed, seed potato and loss. Starch potato, seed and feed potato categories have steadily represented about 34 percent, 5.5 percent, and 0.1 percent, respectively of national production.
On the other hand,