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Like most vegetables, potatoes need healthy cropping soils.

Despite facing major challenges, New Zealand's potato industry remains a billion dollar business.

OPINION: British supermarket chain Waitrose recently released its 2022 Food and Drink report, in which it predicts that potato 'milk' will be the biggest dairy alternative milk trend of 2022.

New Zealand's potato sector remains a billion dollar plus industry despite a year of crises.

Potato growers aren't giving up their fight against cheaper frozen french fries imports from the European Union.

Fruit and vegetable prices increased almost 9% in the year ending December 2020, boosting overall food price inflation to 2.9%, Stats NZ announced today.

New Zealand government officials have started an investigation into cheap frozen chip imports being dumped into the country after concerns raised by local potato growers earlier this year.

Potato farmers are relieved that the Government is investigating the dumping of surplus European frozen fries into New Zealand

The inability to bring in experienced overseas workers is one of the big difficulties for the potato industry as it heads into the next growing season amid COVID-19.

Moves by the NZ potato industry to have anti-dumping tariffs imposed on European imports could play into the hands of the EU, warns a long-time trade negotiator.