Canada stopped sending the Island’s best-known export to the U.S. after a fungus was detected in a few fields on the Island
Prince Edward Island potato farmers say a new report on potato wart shows the 2021 decision to halt exports to the United States went too far, and they want remaining restrictions lifted for farms where the soil-borne fungus has not been found.
The fungal parasite – a disease that disfigures potatoes but poses no threat to human health – spreads through the movement of infected potatoes, soil and farm equipment. Visser said he and his peers were offended by the 2021 ministerial order that said the province was “infested” with potato wart when in fact a “handful” of fields had the fungus.The export ban is estimated to have cost the industry more than $50 million in revenue and forced farmers to destroy about 115 million kilograms of potatoes, according to the P.E.I. Potato Board.
Visser, reached at his potato farm in Victoria, P.E.I., where he grows seed and table potatoes, said this restriction should be lifted.
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