Farmers stare at loss as potato prices halve amid glut in UP, Punjab, Bengal

Sowing of potatoes usually begins in November, while the crop is harvested the following January. Uttar Pradesh, the largest producer of the tuber, has witnessed a 15% increase in production in the latest crop season compared with a year earlier, when the state had produced 15.5 million tonnes of potatoes.

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