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Monday, 29 August 2022

Then they came for the fries…

Bad news, French fry lovers: Your next pommes frites fix may cost you a lot more. Europe’s ongoing drought — the worst one the continent has faced in 500 years according to the EU — will likely result in the smallest potato crop on record, Reuters cites analysts from the World Potato Markets (WPM) as saying. Experts don’t see a sequel to the nineteenth-century Irish Potato Famine just yet, but they do expect the drop in production to lead to a surge in potato prices. The continent’s top potato producers — Germany, France, the Netherlands and Belgium — have all been heavily impacted by the drought, threatening potato crops.

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