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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
Along with climate and corresponding types of vegetation, the economy of a nation also influences the level of agricultural production. Production of some products is highly concentrated in a few countries, China, the leading producer of wheat and ramie in 2013, produces 95% of the world's ramie fiber but only 17% of the world's wheat. Products ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates the year’s potato production will be 417 million hundredweight (cwt), which is down slightly more than 5% from 2023. Wisconsin’s reported ...
The potato remains an essential crop in Europe, especially Northern and Eastern Europe, where per capita production is still the highest in the world, while the most rapid expansion in production during the 21st century was in southern and eastern Asia, with China and India leading the world production as of 2021.
Potato production in Latvia has been decreasing since 2003. [1] Latvia produced 209,900 tons of potato in 2014. [2]Potatoes were introduced to Europe in the 16th century, but only became seriously cultivated in Latvia in the 19th century.
French fries sorting on a modern frozen potato manufacturing line. The Netherlands and Belgium are the two top producers of frozen potato products in Europe. Last year [clarification needed], Europe produced 3.8 billion euros worth of deep-frozen french fries. About one-third came from Dutch manufacturers (nearly 1.3 billion euros), which ...
Agriculture in Europe by country (48 C) Agriculture in North America by country ... List of countries by potato production; List of countries by rice production;