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Countries by potato production in 2020. 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]
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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
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 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 comprised about 10% of the caloric intake of Europeans. Along with several other foods that either originated in the Americas or were successfully grown or harvested there, potatoes sustained European populations. [47] The potato promoted economic development in Britain by underpinning the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century. It ...
The potato (/ p ə ˈ t eɪ t oʊ /) is a starchy tuberous vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world. Potatoes are underground tubers of the plant Solanum tuberosum, a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae. Wild potato species can be found from the southern United States to southern Chile.
The final 10% of Prince Edward Island's potato harvest is grown for seed production, to produce the next year's potato crop. [7] The majority of seed grown in PEI is utilized within the province, but seed potatoes have been exported to the United States and a number of other countries for many years.