Where do potatoes belong?

Potatoes, also known as potatoes and potatoes. Potato planting in Maling, Zhaotong City began in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. Since planting potatoes in Zhaotong City, it has not only "passed through the years of hunger, but also gradually turned the original deep mountains and barren land into agricultural farming areas". 1990, the potato planting area in the whole region reached10.2 million mu, equivalent to staple food188.63 million kg. Potatoes contain minerals such as protein, fat, vitamin C, B 1, B2, iron, magnesium, phosphorus and potassium. It is a dual-purpose food and vegetable crop in the life of urban and rural people in the whole region. Among the vegetables with potatoes as raw materials, shredded potatoes, potato chips and potato starch are generally common. Fried potato chips are crisp but not tender, crispy and slag-melting, and rich in minerals such as vitamin C, iron and zinc, which is conducive to preventing anemia and promoting children's intellectual development. Potato starch is also called the seasoning of potato dishes. In the food industry, it can also be processed into glucose, preserved fruit, syrup and so on. The buckwheat field in Qiaojia County, where potatoes are concentrated, has produced a large number of potato flour. Potato production in the whole region is still in the primary product stage, so it is necessary to gradually create the necessary technical and equipment conditions and expand the scale of deep processing. Recently, Zhaotong No.1 Food Factory and Zhongdian Forestry Bureau jointly established "Yunnan Starch Food Factory", with potatoes, sweet potatoes, banana taro, konjac and other potatoes as raw materials, with a daily processing capacity of 100 tons and an annual output of 3,000 tons of refined flour. This not only found a solution for potato storage, but also opened a new road for rural economic development by actively developing new products in Zhaotong City. (Zhaotong)