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Publication - Advice and guidance

Potato exports guide

Last updated
24 January 2024 - see all updates
Directorate
Agriculture and Rural Economy Directorate
Part of
Farming and rural

Information on the conditions and phytosanitary requirements for the export of Scottish potatoes, where known by country.

Supporting documents

Kyrgyzstan

Seed potatoes (updated 16 July 2019)

Growing crop tolerances

Class tolerances apply. 

Tuber tolerances

Minimum tolerances for seed export apply. 

Additional declarations to be inserted on the reverse of the phytosanitary certificate for seed potatoes

  1. Potato wart disease (Synchytrium endobioticum) is not known to have occurred on the land used for the production of the seed potatoes.
  2. Samples of soil from the land in which the potatoes were grown were drawn and tested by the Department prior to planting and revealed no trace of Potato cyst nematode (Globodera rostochiensis and G. pallida).
  3. Potato tuber moth (Phthorimaea operculella), Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica), Colorado beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata), Root knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.) and Brown rot (Ralstonia solanacearum) are not known to occur in Scotland.
  4. The consignment is practically free from soil.

Ware potatoes 

Wart disease

Wart disease (Synchytrium endobioticum) must not be known to have occurred in the field in which the crop was grown. 

Potato cyst nematodes (PCN)

The field in which the potatoes were grown must have been tested for the presence of Potato cyst nematodes (Globodera rostochiensis and G. pallida) pre-planting or where this has not been carried out lot freedom from PCN using a consignment test must be demonstrated (PCN testing for export applies). There will be a charge for these tests. 

Tuber tolerances

Minimum tolerances for ware export apply. 

Additional declarations to be inserted on the reverse of the phytosanitary certificate for ware potatoes

  1. Potato wart disease (Synchytrium endobioticum) is not known to have occurred on the land used for the production of the potatoes. 
  2. Samples of soil from the land on which these potatoes were grown were drawn and tested prior to planting by the official services and no trace was found of Potato cyst nematodes (Glodobera pallidaandG. rostochiensis) or lot freedom from PCN has been demonstrated by consignment test.
  3. Potato tuber moth (Phthorimaea operculella), Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica), Colorado beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata), Root knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.) and Brown rot (Ralstonia solanacearum) are not known to occur in Scotland.
  4. The consignment is practically free from soil.

 

First published
8 February 2021
Last updated
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