Georgia: Tha sgìre buntàta air crìonadh mu 60% bho 2000 agus às-mhalairt a’ leum gu 43,465 tunna ann an cairteal
Prìomh takeaways
- 221,100 t of potatoes grown in Georgia in 2024, up 12.1%
- 15 t/ha average potato yield in Georgia in 2024 (Geostat)
- 43,465 tonnes exported in Q1 2025 vs 1,077 t a year earlier
- 25,705 t of Q1 2025 exports went to Russia, the top buyer
Carson a tha e cudromach
- Do luchd-malairt
- Watch Georgian surpluses after good highland harvests: Q1 2025 exports reached 43,465 t, mainly to Russia and Azerbaijan.
- Do sholaraichean
- Offer seed and inputs in Samtskhe-Javakheti: yields rose to 15-16 t/ha, but they remain low by European standards.
- Airson luchd-tasgaidh
- Check storage capacity in southern Georgia: the country swings between imports and exports depending on the harvest.
Geàrr-chunntas 60-diog
Georgian potato growing now uses much less land but gets far more from each hectare. Our reading of FAO series suggests the planted area fell from around 34,000 hectares in 2000 to roughly 14,000 in 2024, while yield climbed from under 9 to almost 16 tonnes. Official output in 2024 was about 221,000 tonnes, up 12 percent. Most of it comes from the cool southern plateau of Samtskhe-Javakheti, where a bad season quickly turns the country into an importer. Early 2025 showed the opposite swing: in three months exporters shipped over 43,000 tonnes, more than in all of 2024, mostly to Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia. Regional traders and seed suppliers should treat Georgia as a flexible swing source rather than a fixed buyer or seller. Keep in mind that the regional production share dates from 2017 and full-year 2025 trade data were not yet available.
Georgia produced 221,100 tonnes of potatoes in 2024, according to the statistics office Geostat, as reported by the business portal BM.ge. This was 12.1% more than a year earlier. The average yield was 15 tonnes per hectare.
The long-run picture is one of less land and higher yields. FAOSTAT data published by Our World in Data show 302,000 tonnes in 2000 at a yield of 8.9 tonnes per hectare. This implies about 34,000 hectares. In 2024 FAOSTAT shows 221,500 tonnes at 15.8 tonnes per hectare, or about 14,000 hectares.
So the area fell by roughly 60% in 25 years, while the yield rose by about three quarters. FAOSTAT shows 228,800 tonnes in 2010, 186,500 tonnes in 2015 and 208,600 tonnes in 2020.
Làithean na seachdain. Dì-chlàraich le aon bhriogadh.
A crop of the southern highlands
Most potatoes grow in the southern region of Samtskhe-Javakheti. In 2017 the regional administration said the region produced 64% of national output. The International Potato Center opened a representation in Georgia in the same period to introduce new varieties and technologies.
Harvests in the highlands depend strongly on weather. In a poor year the country imports potatoes, mainly from Russia and Belarus. In early 2023, after a weak crop, Georgia imported about 11,000 tonnes in two winter months, according to the market analyst EastFruit.
An export surge in 2025
In 2025 the direction of trade changed. In the first quarter Georgia exported 43,465 tonnes of potatoes worth US$13.46 million, according to Geostat data reported by BM.ge. In the same quarter of 2024 exports were only 1,077 tonnes. In the whole of 2024 they were 35,002 tonnes, worth US$7.5 million.
Russia took 25,705 tonnes in the first quarter of 2025. Azerbaijan took 14,528 tonnes and Armenia 2,447 tonnes. The agriculture ministry gave similar figures for January and early March, as reported by Commersant.ge.
The surge followed a larger Georgian harvest in 2024.
Carson a tha e cudromach
Georgia is a small producer, but it sits between larger markets in Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia. Its trade can switch from imports to exports within one season, depending on highland weather and prices in the region.
For seed suppliers, higher yields on a smaller area point to growing demand for better seed and inputs. For traders, Georgia is a flexible swing supplier in the South Caucasus.
Photo: Potato fields in the Akhurian region, Armenia (not Georgia) (illustrative). Narek Avetisyan /Narek75/ / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Geàrr-chunntas Buntàta Cruinneil
Còig prìomh sgeulachdan, prìsean, rabhaidhean galair agus tachartasan. Madainnean làithean seachdaineach, gun sanasachd.
stòran
- BM.ge — Potato Exports Have Increased Sharply – Georgia Received $13.4 MLN In Revenue In 3M25 (Geostat data, 30.04.2025) — https://bm.ge/en/news/potato-exports-have-increased-sharply-georgia-received-134-mln-in-revenue-in-3m25
- Commersant.ge — Georgian potato exports have soared 30-fold (Ministry of Agriculture data, 05.03.2025) — https://commersant.ge/en/news/economics/georgian-potato-exports-have-soared-30-fold-russia-remains-the-key-market
- Samtskhe-Javakheti State Representative Administration — Potato production in Samtskhe-Javakheti region is characterized by increasing tendencies (12.10.2017) — https://srca.gov.ge/en/news/4308
- EastFruit — Unprecedented imports of potatoes in Georgia (22.02.2023) — https://east-fruit.com/en/news/unprecedented-imports-of-potatoes-in-georgia-how-much-more-will-the-country-need/
- An Saoghal againn ann an Dàta / FAOSTAT — Riochdachadh agus toradh buntàta — https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/potato-production
Ceangailte san stuth seo
- dùthaich
- Georgia
- Companaidhean
- Ionad Buntàta Eadar-nàiseanta (CIP)
- Earrannan
- ÀisiaNaidheachdan- HUASHIL
Sgeulachdan co-cheangailte
Armenia: Potato Crop Down 44% From 2015 to 337,683 Tonnes as Imports Shrink and Exports Start
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