Better potatisskörd in years – times of india

Agriculture

this Year’s Swedish harvest of table potatoes is estimated this year to 553 000 tonnes – 5 per cent higher than in the previous year. The increase represents a recovery compared with the 2015 year’s record harvest, according to a press releases from the Agriculture department. The main reason is that the area planted with ware potatoes has increased.

the Best yield of the crop may Västerbotten and Norrbotten counties, with 43 and 33% higher totalskörd in the year. Among the four counties where the cultivation of potatoes is the largest – Skåne, Halland, Västra Götaland and Östergötland – just got the Västra Götaland region, an increase of 14 per cent higher totalskörd than in the previous year.