The yield of organic potatoes this year is however well below that of recent years. With 183 kg per acre this is 17.4% below the five year average. The reason for this is late blight, which has occurred because of the wet weather.
In total, a potato harvest of 452,200 tons was counted. Last year the potato crop was 515,000 tons so large that this exceeded demand. So much that a lot of potatoes had to be used as animal feed.