Abstract
The Potato Marketing Board is essentially an organization of growers, which, with government support, exercises considerable control over the growing and marketing of potatoes for human consumption in Great Britain. It tries to equate the area planted to that estimated to produce the required quantity of potatoes, in an endeavour to avoid large and unmanageable surpluses given normal yields. Potatoes are sold in a basically free market which is made stable by support buying of comparatively small surpluses by the Board, financed partly from its own funds contributed on an area basis by potato growers and partly by Government. It prices nevertheless remain depressed, a Government deficiency payment becomes due to the Board, the money being used to finance support buying. The Board also licenses merchants, determines grading standards, provides market intelligence and undertakes research and publicity.
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