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Southern Potato Conference Held: More Than 50% of Potatoes in China Will Be Consumed as a Staple Food by 2025
From December 17 to 18, the 2015 Southern Potato Conference was held in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hubei Province, with more than 400 academic and industry professionals from home and abroad in attendance. According to statistics from the Potato Professional Committee of the Crop Science Society of China, from 2010 to 2014, China's potato
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Small potatoes make a big splash, small vermicelli becomes a big industry
Since the beginning of winter, vermicelli processing has entered its peak season, and potato vermicelli processing plants in Xishan, Caijiabao, Taizi, Weiyuan Town, Tangchuan Town, Wufeng Township, Wushi and other areas, the main potato-producing areas of Huzhu County, Qinghai, have been bustling one after another. In recent years, Huzhu County has relied on its abundant potato harvest to
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Can Potatoes Be Grown on Mars? NASA Will Conduct an Experiment
In the Hollywood film "Mission to Mars," the botanist played by leading man Matt Damon tries to grow potatoes on Mars, and this approach may soon become reality. According to a December 23 report by Hong Kong, China's Wen Wei Po, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), together with Peru's International Potato Center (CIP), will
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Potato growers in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang grow golden nuggets of wealth
In the past two years, potato market prices have been high and farmers' returns good, which has spurred farmers in Qiqihar City to grow potatoes. So how much are farmers earning from growing potatoes now? With this question in mind, recently this writer followed the Qiqihar City Price Bureau to investigate
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Dingxi Potatoes: Fragrance Spreads Ten Thousand Miles, True Kindness Connects Hebei and Gansu
"Thank you, Aunt Zhang! We will definitely study hard." A few days ago, two primary school students from Sanwan Primary School in Shixiawan Township, Anding District, said this excitedly when they received a loving donation from Aunt Zhang Li, who is far away in Hebei Province. In 2014, Anding District began preparations to build a demonstration zone for the creation of a nationally known potato industry brand.
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The potato's rise has nothing to do with a food crisis
We eat far fewer potatoes than developed countries. In "Interstellar" there is a scene: in a certain year in the future, Earth's ecological environment suffers severe damage. Frequent sandstorms and other harsh weather trigger a food crisis, and staple crops such as wheat and rice are on the verge of extinction in the swirling yellow sand
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China Becomes the World's Largest Producer and Consumer of Potatoes, Pushing Forward the Industrialization of Potatoes as a Staple Food
Nowadays, various agricultural resource factors are stretched tight, and residents' demands for improving the nutritional structure of staple foods are growing ever higher. China's push to develop the potato industry comes at just the right time - the potato is a major food that is nutritious and convenient to eat, and has become the world's fourth-largest food crop after rice, wheat, and
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Tianshui City urges implementation of harvest, storage and cellaring of virus-free seed potatoes
From January 4 to 7, Guo Sibai, head of the Tianshui City Seed Management Station, led municipal station technicians to supervise and inspect the follow-up seed potato harvest, storage and cellaring management work of the 2015 full-coverage virus-free seed potato project undertaken by each county and district. In 2015, Tianshui Tianyuanchun, Gansu Feng
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Hubei Enshi Shadi Potatoes Enjoy a Bumper Harvest
The autumn potatoes planted in 2015 have done so well that the more we dig, the more energized we get, and in 2016 we will expand the planting even further. On December 31, 2015, Liu Meiqing, a villager from the Tudi Tang group of Liuchi Village in Shadi Township, said this happily to technicians from the township agricultural service center who had come to measure the yield. That day
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Ningxia Xiji potatoes reached an output value of 1.6 billion yuan in 2015
Using the latest improved Qingshu No. 9 variety and following agricultural science personnel in practicing scientific water-saving planting methods, I earned more than 20,000 yuan from growing potatoes in 2015, double that of 2014. Recently, when Ma Guobao, a potato grower in Luozhuang Village, Xinglong Town, Xiji County, was calculating his annual income ⟦4 <p> <p> “Using the latest improved Qingshu No. 9 variety and following agricultural science personnel in practicing scientific water-saving planting methods, I earned more than 20,000 yuan from growing potatoes in 2015, double that of 2014.” Recently, when Ma Guobao, a potato grower in Luozhuang Village, Xinglong Town, Xiji County, was calculating his annual income, he repeatedly praised the benefits of modern potato cultivation.</p> <p> “In the year just past, Xiji County's potatoes achieved an output value of 1.6 billion yuan, increasing the per capita income of farmers by more than 1,500 yuan.” The head of the county's Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau said that by firmly seizing the opportunity of the national launch of the potato staple food strategy and the autonomous region's designation of Xiji County as a pilot county for potato staple food development, Xiji County has strengthened the construction of a three-tier seed potato breeding system, focused on promoting the transformation and upgrading of the potato industry, and increased farmers' income. At present, a improved variety breeding system has initially taken shape, based on factory-based and intensive production of virus-free plantlets and pre-basic seed potatoes, with tiered expansion and propagation of basic seed potatoes and first-generation seed potatoes, and the area over which virus-free seed potatoes have been promoted has reached 700,000 mu.</p> <p> In order to turn the “golden beans” into cash in a timely manner and into tangible real money for farmers, Xiji County relies on the brand advantages of the “Hometown of Chinese Potatoes” and a China Well-Known Trademark, focuses on building an “Internet Plus” e-commerce outbound sales system for fresh potatoes, and has cultivated more than 300 leaders of modern agriculture through the models of “enterprise + base + farmer” and “party branch + cooperative + farmer,” vigorously expanding the marketing market. The county has built the Ningxia Jiali Potato Seed Potato Trading Center, with a storage capacity of 100,000 tons, and three specialized potato wholesale markets in Jiangtai, Xinying and Tianping, selling more than 600,000 tons of fresh potatoes outside the county annually. Fresh potatoes and their products are sold to more than ten provinces nationwide, including Shanghai and Guangzhou, and have also entered international markets such as Southeast Asia and the Middle East.</p></p>
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