Middle East And Africa Potato Processing Market

Middle East and Africa Potato Processing Market Research Analysis 2022 - 2027

Middle East and Africa Potato Processing Market was worth USD 1.99 billion in 2022 and estimated to be growing at a CAGR of 4.63%, to reach USD 2.45 billion by 2027.

Middle East and Africa Potato Processing Market Overview

Potatoes are used for a wide range of purposes, and not just as a vegetable for cooking at home. In fact, it is estimated that less than fifty percent of potatoes grown worldwide are consumed fresh. The rest is processed into potato food ingredients and food products; fed to cattle, chickens, and pigs, processed into starch for industry; and re-used as seed tubers for producing the next season’s potato crop.Fresh potatoes are boiled, baked, or fried and used in a staggering range of recipes such as potato pancakes, mashed potatoes, potato dumplings, potato soup, twice-baked potatoes, potato salad and potatoes au gratin among others. But the trend of Middle East and Africa consumption of potato as food is shifting from fresh potatoes to processed, added-value, food products. One of the key items in that category is frozen potatoes, which includes most of the French-Fries served in fast-food chains and restaurants worldwide. The world’s appetite for factory-made French-Fries has been put at more than seven million tons a year. Another processed product, the potato crisp is the long-standing king of snack foods in a lot of developed countries. Dehydrated potato flakes are used in retail mashed potato products, as ingredients in snacks, also as food aid.

Middle East and Africa Potato Processing Market Drivers

The driving factors of Middle East and Africa Potato Processing market are growth in demand for applications such as prepared ready meals and snack foods and the growth in consumer preferences for convenience foods to save effort and time. A rise in the number of retail channels such as supermarkets and hypermarkets, quick growth of the fast food industry, and industrialization policies adopted by governments of developing economies are also expected to propel the growth of the potato processing market during the forecast period.

Middle East and Africa Potato Processing Market Segmentation

based on type

• chips

• snack pellets

• frozen

• dehydrated

On the basis of the application

• ready to cook

• prepared meals

• snacks

By distribution channel

• food service

• retail

Middle East and Africa Potato Processing Market Regional Analysis

• UAE

• Israel

• KSA

• South Africa

• Egypt

Key Players 

1. Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc. (U.S.)

2. The Kraft Heinz Company (U.S.)

3. J.R. Simplot Company (U.S.)

4. McCain Foods Limited (U.S.)

5. Agristo NV (Belgium)

6. Farm Frites International B.V. (Netherlands)

7. J.R. Short Milling Company (U.S.)

8. Intersnack Group GmbH & Co. KG (Germany)

9. Idahoan Foods, LLC (U.S.)

10. AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG (Austria)

11. Aviko B.V. (Netherlands)