The area of potatoes for storage in France is 113,240 HA in 2012 against 113,480 HA in 2011. This means a slight decrease of -0.2%. The general decrease in the most important regions Champagne-Ardennes is only partly compensated by other regions. Champagne-Ardennes has a decrease of 4.8%. Region Centre, in which the area increased by 1% is now the third region in France as far as potato production is concerned after Nord-Pas de Calais and Picaride. The five most important regions together take up 86% of the total potato area.
Furthermore the French UNPT (National Union of Potato Producers) have reminded the potato growers of the arrangement signed by CNIPT (National Interprofessionnal Committee of the Potato ) and the GIPT (Interprofessional group for the valuation of the Potato ) in 2003. With this agreement producers, traders and manufacturers, who are members of CNIPT or the GIPT and become victim of the bacteria Clavibacter michiganensis and Ralstonia solanacearum r