Over the past 30 years, potato production in China and India has increased at a dramatic rate, largely due to area expansion. Production growth is also being driven by other means, say experts, influencing that growth and its pace.
If the vice-governor of Ningxia province in China is spending his downtime dreaming up recipes for his potato cookbook, you can bet this country is focused on potatoes.
Qu Dongyu, with colleague Xie Kaiyun, recently published the book How the Chinese Eat Potatoes, which contains hundreds of recipes as well as historical, nutritional, production and distribution information on the potato.