Higher fuel, energy, fertiliser and seed prices are eating into profits and forcing cutbacks.
BBC News, EastPotato growers in Cambridgeshire said higher fuel, fertiliser and seed prices were eating into their profits and they would plant fewer crops.
Mr Petrou, who has been running fish and chip shops since 1987, said he had to put his prices up three times over the last year. Mr Petrou said his fuel bill was due to increase in July next year from £900 a month to £3,500, which he said was "not sustainable - at that level we'll not be able to trade".Farmer Luke Abblitt, based at Ramsey St Mary's, said he would plant 14 acres of potatoes this year compared with 20 acres last year.
Mr Abblitt said his major concern was "the volatility, the not knowing the costs. If I know the [prices] at the end, I know what costs I can put in".F Smith and Sons, in nearby Ramsey, will be only planting a third of the amount of potatoes it did last year.
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