International Seminar on Potato Staple Food and Industry Development held in Beijing
DATE:2015-07-30 SOURCE:Information Office, MOA
MOA hosted the International Seminar on Potato Staple Food and Industry Development in Beijing on July 29, 2015.
The Seminar emphasized that potato has been considered as the 4th staple after rice, wheat and corn in the world and China. China accounts for one quarter of global potato acreage and output in 2014. China is also the world''s largest potato producer and consumer. Yet,its annual per capita consumption merely stood at 41.2 kg in 2014. Promoting potato staple food aims at developing diversified staple products to improve food portfolio and dietary structure.
The theme of the Seminar was "green, safe, nutritious and healthy", calling for accelerating the breeding of potato varieties suitable for processing into staple, developing a number of quality potato production bases, promoting advanced processing technologies, and providing support to leading enterprises of the industry. The Seminar pledged to foster a new pattern coordinating development between potato and other crops.
Ms. Barbara Wells, General Director of the International Potato Center, attended and addressed the Seminar.
Nearly 1000 experts and management personnel from home and abroad attended the Seminar, including representatives of potato farming, research, processing and marketing sectors.