date:Nov 08, 2017
considerably higher than normal throughout the MY (see Chart 2). Market prices of fresh potatoes in Tokyo remained high (up 90 percent compared to the previous MY) until a strong harvest of spring potatoes came into the market in March. Additionally, consumption of processing potatoes declined 10 percent to 530,000 MT in MY 2016/17 given the supply limitations.
Trade
The GOJ restricts the import of fresh potatoes to designated production areas, during limited portions of the year, and to only