荷兰马铃薯出口增长12.6%，而西北欧马铃薯产量下降25.4%
Dutch exports of table and processing potatoes reached 147,956 tonnes by 30 September 2026, up 12.6% year-on-year — even as the combined Northwest European harvest is preliminarily estimated at 20.7 million tonnes, down 25.4% from 2025.
Dutch exports of table and processing potatoes increased by 12.6% to 147,956 tonnes by 30 September 2026, compared with 131,388 tonnes during the same period last year. The growth is striking precisely because it coincides with a sharply smaller harvest across the region’s producing countries — and it positions the Dutch trading system, with its ports, storage capacity and grower networks, as the clearing house of a short Northwest European season.
Belgium absorbs the growth. Belgium remained the largest destination, importing 90,895 tonnes — up 29.7% from 70,061 tonnes, and alone taking 19,970 tonnes in September. Shipments to France increased by roughly 80% to 16,925 tonnes (from 9,347 tonnes), while exports to Germany declined by 51.2% to 7,737 tonnes. Total shipments to European markets reached 118,903 tonnes, an increase of roughly 17–18%. The pattern reads clearly: Belgium’s processing industry, short of its own raw material after a poor harvest, is pulling in Dutch supply at scale, while France’s deficit shows up as the fastest-growing lane. Germany’s halved intake, by contrast, suggests its domestic crop was sufficient to cover immediate needs — or that German buyers are waiting for price signals before committing to imports.
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A smaller regional crop. Preliminary estimates put the combined potato harvest of Belgium, Germany, France and the Netherlands at roughly 20.7–20.8 million tonnes, down about a quarter (25.4%) from 2025, with planted acreage also down. Heat and drought affected crop development, resulting in lower yields and smaller tuber sizes — potentially limiting supplies for processing through the season. The combination of a smaller area and a weather-depressed yield means the shortfall is structural, not merely statistical: even favorable storage conditions cannot manufacture tonnage that was never grown.
Beyond Europe. Dutch exports to Africa declined by 11.7% to 15,101 tonnes, while shipments to the Americas increased by roughly 5% to 13,948 tonnes, led by Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana — a modest rebalancing that nonetheless leaves Europe dominant in the Dutch export book. Within the African total, Côte d’Ivoire alone took 9,345 tonnes, up 40.7% — a reminder that overall regional declines can mask sharp growth in individual destinations.
Processing potato prices remained broadly stable in mid-October; potato starch (FCA Lodz, Poland) held flat at €0.625/kg across September and October. Market developments from here will depend on purchasing demand, storage quality and the availability of potatoes meeting processing specifications. That price calm, set against a roughly 25% harvest decline, hints that buyers still expect the market to clear — but it also leaves little margin for weather or storage shocks later in the season, when speculative stock would already have been drawn down.
The paradox at the heart of these numbers — exports up a solid 12.6% while the regional harvest falls by a quarter — cannot persist indefinitely: re-exports and early-season movement are doing the work now, but by mid-winter the raw arithmetic of a roughly 20.7-million-tonne crop will assert itself. Watch whether Dutch export pace slows as domestic processors and Belgian factories compete for the same shrinking pool of specification-grade tubers.
