Potato Processing Industry in Belgium continues its growth

The companies active in this sector have grown from 500.000 tons of processed potatoes in 1990 to 3,65 million tons of raw material in 2012. This means a new increase of about 5,4 % compared with 2011. This is not just a success for the processing companies, most of them family owned enterprises, but also for the with primary producers - the potato farmers - and the traders.