The rain-poor summer of 2018, has provided growers with dry fields and minor Crops: The potato harvest was 25 percent lower than in the previous year, as bad as since the reunification.

The potato harvest for the year 2018 has failed in Germany was the lowest since the reunification. A total of 8.9 million tons of potatoes were harvested – nearly a quarter less than in the previous year, as the Federal statistics office.

in comparison to the average of the past six years, the amounts to 10.8 million tonnes, the harvest volume in 2018 is very low.