There is a of potatoes in New Zealand. This means there could be potato chips until year. Potato chip are calling this a "chipocalypse". This is from the "chip" and "apocalypse". New Zealand has had a very winter. This has hit potato . In some , a third of the potatoes used to make potato chips has been lost. This means companies will make potato chips, and for potato chips will be higher.
The Potatoes New Zealand told a radio station: "It started raining in March, and it just hasn't stopped. We've had the year's worth of rainfall ….It's continuous, so the soils never get a to dry out." The group said potatoes are and need to breathe, but they are drowning and rotting they are under . A big supermarket said: "We are working…to manage as much as ."