The Belgian potato processing industry continued its road to success last year. In total a record amount of 3.8 million potatoes were processed. That's 6.9% more than in the slightly weaker previous year.
In 1990 people in Belgium only processed 500,000 tonnes of potatoes. Since then the volume has been growing constantly. There was only a slight decline in 2013, which Belgapom attributed to "exceptionally high potato prices in Europe".