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Growers' advice: 'Register sales of chips potatoes'
The concrete interpretation of the compensation scheme for chip potato growers is still a long way off. To get the trade going, Branche organization (BO) Akkerbouw is already giving advice on registration of the removal of potatoes.
“It is important that the sales that can now take place actually happen,” says André Hoogendijk, director of BO Akkerbouw. In doing so, he responds to the current market situation.
Many growers who have unsold chips potatoes in stock wait to sell until it is clear whether and under what conditions they are eligible for compensation. The government has for this €50 million made available. According to Hoogendijk, it is clear that the scheme will take effect retroactively. However, the exact date is not yet known.
Record number of cases
According to BO Akkerbouw, it is important that growers record a number of things when selling chips potatoes. Namely the volume that they sell, the price that has been paid and what the destination of the sale is, for example animal feed.
It concerns 3 documents that the grower must in any case have: all weighing slips, CMR waybills and invoices relating to the removal of the chips potatoes. “The compensation scheme relates to potatoes that cannot be processed into chips,” emphasizes Hoogendijk.
According to him, the documentation must therefore clearly show that the batch did not go to the potato processing industry, but was given an alternative destination.
Concrete advice
In concrete terms, BO Akkerbouw advises to collect at least the weighing slip, the CMR consignment note and the invoice from every batch of potatoes that is removed. These documents must show how many potatoes have been removed from the company, to which location, how much was paid for and what final destination they were given.
The accepted destinations for the removal of potatoes consist in any case of animal feed, pet food, Dutch food banks, alcohol, bio-ethanol, starch and foreign consumption. Potatoes that are processed into chips (products) in the Netherlands or other countries are not eligible for government support. Traders and processors who are GMP+ certified or who work in accordance with the NAO hygiene code GMP are used for the removal to feeds.
Hoogendijk emphasizes that the exact conditions for the compensation scheme are not known at this time. “But it is expected that the said documents will be necessary as evidence.”
Jeanette Pennings
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