The crisis mainly affects potatoes that are grown for the purpose of processing into frozen fries. A portion of the harvest is sold through long-term contracts with processors, but those who aren’t are known as free-market potatoes. These potatoes now have very few buyers and are piling up in warehouses across the country, and with a new harvest coming solutions are needed and quickly.
Current alternative uses include turning the potatoes into biogas, animal feed, and possibly being donated to food banks, and even a special ‘potato-awareness’ day on the 19th of April.
