
UK: Fight Against Blight 2025 relaunched — live late-blight map already helping farmers cut fungicide use by ≈15 %.
Netherlands: record 83 000 ha of table potatoes (+8.6 % YoY) set to heat up competition on export markets.
USA 2025 plantings: ≈369 000 ha (-2 % YoY). Ample carry-over stocks = no supply crunch expected.
FNIС Potato (near Moscow): demo field shows AI-driven grader and autonomous sprayer with computer vision.
Belarus: genome-edited, late-blight-resistant variety finishing trials — promises -30 % agro-chemical costs.
North America retail: volume +2 %, average shelf price -2.8 %. Consumers shifting toward chips & frozen.
Spain: electric spray-drones — 8-min charge → 8 h runtime, saving ≈40 L diesel per hectare on wet soils.
Idaho: 49-ha block officially cleared of PCN after a decade; already contract-ed for French-fry production.
Reminder: 11 July = National French Fry Day — food-service chains offering free size upgrades via apps.
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