2008 is international year of potato - part 1
Why Potato?
The celebration of the International Year of Potato (IYP) will raise awareness of the importance of potato - and of agriculture in general - in addressing issues of global concern, including hunger, poverty and threats to the environment.
Over the next two decades, the world's population is expected to grow on average by more than 100 million people a year. More than 95 percent of that increase will occur in the developing countries, where pressure on land and water is already intense. A key change facing the international community is, therefore, to ensure food security for present and future generations, while protecting the natural resources base on which we all depend. The potato will be an important part of efforts to meet those challenges...
Potatoes are grow worldwide.
The potato has been consumed in the Andes for about 8000 years. Taken by the Spanish to Europe in the 16th century, it quickly spread across the globe: today potatoes are grown on an estimated 195,000 sq km, or 75,000 square miles, of farmland, from China's Yunnan plateau and the subtropical lowlands of India, to Java's equatorial highlands and the steppes of Ukraine. In terms of sheer quantity harvested, the humble potato tuber is the world's No.4 food crop, with production in 2007 of more than 320 million tonnes (about 353 million US tons). More than half of that total was harvested in developing countries.
to be continued...........
Over the next two decades, the world's population is expected to grow on average by more than 100 million people a year. More than 95 percent of that increase will occur in the developing countries, where pressure on land and water is already intense. A key change facing the international community is, therefore, to ensure food security for present and future generations, while protecting the natural resources base on which we all depend. The potato will be an important part of efforts to meet those challenges...
Potatoes are grow worldwide.
The potato has been consumed in the Andes for about 8000 years. Taken by the Spanish to Europe in the 16th century, it quickly spread across the globe: today potatoes are grown on an estimated 195,000 sq km, or 75,000 square miles, of farmland, from China's Yunnan plateau and the subtropical lowlands of India, to Java's equatorial highlands and the steppes of Ukraine. In terms of sheer quantity harvested, the humble potato tuber is the world's No.4 food crop, with production in 2007 of more than 320 million tonnes (about 353 million US tons). More than half of that total was harvested in developing countries.
to be continued...........
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