Truckloads of P.E.I. potatoes have started to arrive at food banks across Canada, part of an effort to distribute potatoes left sitting in Island warehouses because of the 10-week ban on exports to the United States.
The P.E.I. Potato Board is helping to co-ordinate the shipments, along with two of the country’s largest food bank organizations, with funding from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.
On Nov. 21, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) announced it was suspending the fresh potato trade to the U.S. following the discovery of potato wart in two Island fields, bringing exports usually worth about $120 million per
