The best known are Amandine and Charlotte. But there are also Agata, Désirée, Annabelle and dozens of others. All potatoes. Of the so-called table, presented as is for purchase – 172,000 of the 350,000 tonnes consumed each year in Switzerland – and whose sales jumped during the two months of confinement imposed to fight against the Covid-19 pandemic . “The increase is around 30% compared to the same period last year,” said Ruedi Fischer, president of the Swiss Union of Potato Producers (USPPT).
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