2020/221 Horticulture Statistics Handbook show spuds top fresh produce sales

Ashley Walmsley
Updated July 4 2022 - 11:30pm, first published March 10 2022 - 5:00am
UP: Aussies love their spuds, with the 2020/21 Horticulture Statistics Handbook showing 87pc of Australian households purchased potatoes, buying an average of 1.7kg per shopping trip.
UP: Aussies love their spuds, with the 2020/21 Horticulture Statistics Handbook showing 87pc of Australian households purchased potatoes, buying an average of 1.7kg per shopping trip.

IT'S not a competition... but just quietly, potatoes have taken out the top spot in terms of the highest volume in fresh produce purchases in Australia for the past financial year.

Ashley Walmsley

Ashley Walmsley

Editor, Good Fruit & Vegetables

Ashley Walmsley is the editor of ACM's only national, fresh produce magazine, Good Fruit & Vegetables, while also covering horticulture stories for the agricultural papers and websites. He also writes the weekly, The Ringer, column in the Qld Country Life.

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