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The country's main potato-planting region is the Plateau State (Barkin Ladi, Bokkos, and Mangu) which accounts for almost half of the national potato yield. [13] [12] Other potato-producing areas include Kaduna and Benue. Potato production takes place in both the wet season (April till August) and the dry season (September till March).
This is a list of countries by potato production from 2016 to 2022, based on data from the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. [1] The estimated total world production for potatoes in 2022 was 374,777,763 metric tonnes , up 0.3% from 373,787,150 tonnes in 2021. [ 1 ]
The potato, first discovered among the Incas in present-day Peru by the Spanish conquistadors around 1537, probably arrived in France towards the end of the 16th century. . The first mention of its cultivation in France comes from the agronomist Olivier de Serres in his Théâtre d'Agriculture et mesnage des champs, which describes its cultivation and gives it as originating in Switzerland
Changes in farming unit types within the Andean region has also had indirect effects on downstream ecosystems. Specifically within Colombia, with the expansion of Ox Area units causing deforestation, over 63% of the land cover has been replaced by agriculture indirectly increasing the concentration of NH 3- N in the water as well as sedimentation.
The development of the potato industry and the consumption of potatoes as a staple food is an important step in China’s agricultural development". [6] Since 2015 government policy promotes the use of the potato as a staple food, [7] using potato flour as a substitute for wheat flower and promoting the use of potato in traditional dishes. [3]
Potatoes were a prominent garden crop in the northwest. [ 2 ] Spain was the world's leading producer and exporter of olives and olive oil , although in some years Italy showed higher production levels because Spanish harvests were notably vulnerable to insects, frost, and storm damage. [ 2 ]
The chairperson of the Zimbabwean Potato Council blamed this on South Africa's dumping of cheaper potatoes. [3] A 2015 study also found that most farmers lacked the technical know-how, with regard to potato-farming. [4]
The International Potato Center (known as CIP from its Spanish-language name Centro Internacional de la Papa) is a research facility based in Lima, Peru, that seeks to reduce poverty and achieve food security on a sustained basis in developing countries through scientific research and related activities on potato, sweet potato, other root and tuber crops, and on the improved management of ...