{"id":2879,"date":"2022-02-08T15:32:33","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T20:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalpotatocouncil.org\/?p=2879"},"modified":"2022-02-08T15:32:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T20:32:34","slug":"national-potato-council-statement-in-response-to-resumption-of-trade-between-pei-and-puerto-rico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalpotatocouncil.org\/national-potato-council-statement-in-response-to-resumption-of-trade-between-pei-and-puerto-rico\/","title":{"rendered":"National Potato Council Statement in Response to Resumption of Trade Between PEI and Puerto Rico"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>WASHINGTON \u2013 <\/strong>The National Potato Council today released the following statement in response to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usda.gov\/media\/press-releases\/2022\/02\/08\/usda-allows-resumption-prince-edward-island-tablestock-potatoes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">news<\/a> of the resumption of trade of table stock potatoes from Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada, into Puerto Rico:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe National Potato Council welcomes the safe resumption of trade between PEI and Puerto Rico that will allow the province\u2019s growers to market their 2021 crop. We trust USDA and CFIA have put plans in place to strictly prohibit the resale of fresh potatoes to the mainland in order to prevent the potential spread of disease to U.S. potato farms. Looking forward, the U.S. potato industry anticipates the fulfillment of CFIA\u2019s commitment to conduct 35,000 soil tests for the disease in PEI to ensure it has identified which fields are cleared for export. That precursor will allow resumption of trade with PEI and the United States, consistent with the best available science,\u201d said NPC CEO Kam Quarles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Potato wart is not present in the United States. If it were allowed to become established in U.S. potato production areas in the future, the direct costs would likely be more than $300 million annually and billions more annually in indirect damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>###<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The National Potato Council represents the interests of U.S. potato growers on federal legislative, regulatory, environmental and trade issues. The value of U.S. potato production is over $4.5 billion annually and supports hundreds of thousands of jobs both directly and indirectly.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 The National Potato Council today released the following statement in response to news of the resumption of trade of table stock potatoes from Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5,20],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>National Potato Council Statement in Response to Resumption of Trade Between PEI and Puerto Rico - National Potato Council<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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