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Canadian potato production in 2014
Dec. 17, 2014, Ottawa – Statistics Canada estimates total potato production in Canada topped 102.0 million hundredweight (4.6 million tonnes) in 2014. This represents a 0.7 per cent decrease from 2013.
December 17, 2014 By Brandi Cowen
Harvested area also decreased in 2014, down 2.7 per cent to 342,018 acres (138,410 hectares).
Average yield was 298 hundredweight per acre (33.4 tonnes per hectare), up 2.0 per cent from the previous year.
This year’s production by province is as follows:
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| Seeded area (acres) | Harvested area (acres) | Average yield (hundredweight per harvested acres) | Production (hundredweight x 1,000) | |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | Not available | Not available | Not available | Not available |
| Prince Edward Island | 90,500 | 90,200 | 290.1 | 26,165 |
| Nova Scotia | 1,725 | 1,725 | 282.2 | 487 |
| New Brunswick | 48,150 | 48,050 | 297.8 | 14,307 |
| Quebec | 42,996 | 42,255 | 283.4 | 11,976 |
| Ontario | 35,500 | 35,000 | 235.0 | 8,225 |
| Manitoba | 63,000 | 60,806 | 312.8 | 19,017 |
| Saskatchewan | 6,413 | 6,069 | 245.0 | 1,487 |
| Alberta | 52,984 | 51,742 | 361.2 | 18,690 |
| British Columbia | 5,890 | 5,800 | 269.5 | 1,563 |
Additional data is available from Statistics Canada.
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