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Potatoes as a Staple Food: An Emerging Trend - How the Humble Potato Conquered the World
The pastries and snacks made with potato as the main ingredient are delicious and tempting. The potato, scientifically known as Solanum tuberosum, is the world's fourth-largest food crop. According to statistics from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, the world's total potato output in 2013 was 376 million tons. With the establishment in recent years of China's strategy to make potatoes a staple food, China's potato planting area reached 5.57 million hectares in 2014, with fresh potato output of more than 95 million tons; both the area and the output account for about one quarter of the world's total, and China has become the world's largest producer and consumer of potatoes.
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What is different about eating potatoes as a staple food?
There are staple food products such as potato steamed buns, noodles, bread, and pancakes, as well as mind-blowing snacks and treats like milk tea, French fries, ice cream, and freshly squeezed purple potato juice; there are potato tubers of different colors and sizes such as white, pink, and purple,
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Breeding R&D Will Be the Breakthrough for Making Potatoes a Staple Food
In the mid-16th century, the potato was brought from South America to Europe by Spanish colonists. By the 17th century, because of its higher yield than other grains and its ease of management, the potato had already become an important food crop in Europe and was introduced into China. Today, China
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Policy support urgently needed for the industrialization of potatoes as a staple food
At the beginning of this year, the Ministry of Agriculture announced that China would make a major push to develop potatoes as a staple food, gradually making them the fourth largest staple crop, with more than 50% of potatoes expected to be consumed as a staple food by 2020. Once this information came out, it was welcomed by the industry. Recently, reporters at the
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Why Promote the Staple-ization of Potatoes After Eleven Consecutive Years of Grain Increases
Recently, some media interviewed a scholar who has long paid attention to food security regarding the staple-ization of potatoes, which is a matter of public concern, and the scholar believes: this indicates that our country's grain reserves must have encountered problems. It is just that the central government does not say so explicitly and covers up the problem. Such a major issue concerning the national economy and people's livelihood
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No need to agonize over making potatoes a staple grain; just look at it rationally
China's grain output has increased for many consecutive years, grain can be dispatched and dispatched well at any time, and food security is guaranteed. Therefore, there is no need, and it is impossible, to resort to "melon-and-vegetable substitutes." Making potatoes a staple grain is a matter of things falling into place and going with the trend, not something that a certain competent department or association can simply announce
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The road to making potatoes a staple grain is not smooth; no new subsidies for now
The proposal to make potatoes a staple grain is currently only a departmental opinion of the Ministry of Agriculture, and has not been elevated to the national level or become a joint initiative of the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration and other departments; many people have expressed confusion over the Ministry of Agriculture's hasty rewriting of the definition of staple grain. The road to making potatoes a staple grain
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Turning Potatoes into a Staple Grain: Variety Selection Comes First
To make the potato a staple grain, whether it is turned into steamed buns and noodles on the dining table, or into reserve grain and emergency grain in the national grain depots, the potato must first be "transformed" into potato flour. So, can all potatoes be processed into potato flour? What kind of po
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Growers rush to sell as potato prices fall sharply recently
Potato prices have recently maintained a relatively large decline, with the biggest drop reaching as much as 14%. What is the reason for such a large drop in potato prices? After potatoes changed from a vegetable to a staple food, will this affect potato prices? Growers rush to sell as potato prices fall sharply recently
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Conditions for Making Potatoes a Staple Food Are Ripe, but Concerns Over Price Fluctuations Remain
At a seminar recently held by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, advancing potatoes to become China's fourth-largest staple food crop was publicly proposed from a national strategic perspective for the first time, and it has also become a focus of heated public discussion in recent days. As of January 10, on Sina Weibo alone, views of the topic "potatoes become a staple food" had
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