date:Nov 08, 2017
potato imports to total 35,000 MT in MY 2017/18, 11.2 percent lower than MY 2016/17, but 21.5 percent higher than in MY 2015/16 (and the second highest on record after MY 2016/17).
Frozen Potato Products
Production
Japans production of frozen potato products was constrained in MY 2016/17 by reduced domestic supplies caused by a series of typhoons. Domestic production was reduced 16.4 percent from the previous MY to 27,912 MT. This volume is less than 10 percent of Japans domestic consumptio