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Scottish seed spud producers hear their product is being missed

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How the seed potato industry is reacting to loss of EU market

How the seed potato industry is reacting to loss of EU market
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The UK leaving the EU has put paid to UK annual exports of about 22,000t of seed potatoes, worth in excess of £10m to the EU, leaving seed growers with tough decisions on their cropping plans for this coming spring.
Most are grown in Scotland, where the cool, damp climate is advantageous for reducing virus pressure and other key diseases to produce high-quality seed.
Why have seed potato exports to the EU stopped?
After the end of the Brexit transition period, Britain was classified under EU trade rules as a “third country”. Under EU Commission rules, “sensitive products” – which seed and ware potatoes as classified as – require separate technical listings for trade to be allowed from third countries. ....

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Call to ban all imports of EU seed potatoes | Press and Journal

Call to ban all imports of EU seed potatoes
Updated: February 12, 2021, 10:35 am
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Seed potato growers have called for a ban on imports of EU seed potatoes into the UK in response to their produce no longer being allowed into Europe.
The Pre Basic Growers Association (PBGA) has written to Defra Secretary of State George Eustice asking that the UK Government bans seed potato imports from the EU by July 1 if reciprocal trading cannot be agreed. ....

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