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The gourmet inspector of China Food 365 Network learned from the official that the Agricultural Trade Promotion Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People’s Republic of China will hold the 13th China International Potato Industry Expo in Tengzhou, Shandong Province from October 23 to 25, 2023.
The 13th China International Potato Industry Expo (hereinafter referred to as “Potato Expo”) implements the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping on the “big food concept”, adopts the field exhibition mode for the first time, integrates modern agriculture, characteristic cultural tourism, regional customs, etc. Element, in accordance with the goals of internationalization, specialization, marketization, informatization, and branding, strengthens cooperation with industry associations and professional institutions, and invites high-quality buyers and distributors to participate in the conference through market-oriented operations, striving to create a single exhibition in Asia. The largest field exhibition of crops. The goal of this exhibition is to build an international exchange platform for the potato industry, broaden the horizons of the local potato industry, build a whole potato industry chain, promote the high-quality development of the potato industry, boost rural revitalization, and achieve common prosperity.
The goal of this exhibition is to build an international exchange platform for the potato industry, broaden the horizons of Tengzhou’s potato industry, establish Tengzhou’s industrial status as the “Hometown of Potatoes in China”, build a whole potato industry chain, promote the high-quality development of the potato industry, boost rural revitalization, and achieve Common prosperity.
The goal is to make Tengzhou, a good city in China and modern Tengzhou, which is the venue of this International Potato Expo, become the wind vane of the potato industry in China’s secondary cropping area, and also the leader of the world’s potato planting belt at 35° north latitude. Become a demonstration area for rural revitalization in China. It is the first dish brand of Chinese potatoes. As a Chinese gourmet 365 gourmet inspector: I will tell you the story of potatoes.
Potatoes, a seemingly ordinary crop, were selected as “influential crops” by France in the new millennium due to their possession of most of the nutrients in grains, vegetables, and fruits, and the fact that more than 1 billion people around the world have eaten them as staple foods for many years. One of the top ten events in the progress of human civilization in the past 1000 years”. my country is one of the countries with the richest potato resources in the world, and the planting area and output of potatoes and sweet potatoes rank first in the world. In order to promote the development of the potato industry and further play the positive role of the potato industry in promoting my country’s agricultural development, increasing farmers’ income, and ensuring national food security, the Agricultural Trade Promotion Center of the Ministry of Agriculture has held the China International Potato Industry Expo for thirteen consecutive years since 2010. (referred to as “Potato Expo”).
On October 23-25 this year, the 13th “International Potato Expo” once again settled in Tengzhou City, Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province, attracting more than 100 exhibitors from 9 countries including the Netherlands, the United States, and Canada to participate in the exhibition. The latest products and technologies in scientific research, production, processing, storage, transportation, and sales of potato crops such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, cassava, and yams. Focusing on the implementation of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s “big food concept”, the initiative of “implementing the big food concept and promoting the common prosperity of mankind” was issued on the contribution of potatoes to human poverty reduction and prosperity.
In order to cooperate with the potato staple food products and industrial development strategy, this year’s “Potato Expo” specially set up a gourmet area and a potato staple food kitchen to promote the potato staple food and dishes through on-site demonstrations, interactive tastings, and selection of special potato delicacies. During the same period of the exhibition, activities such as “Potato Industry Development Forum”, “China-Netherlands Potato Storage and Processing Technology Docking Event”, “Asia-Pacific Potato Mechanization Forum” and other activities were held. Through all-round high-quality services, “Potato Expo” has built an efficient communication platform for promoting international cooperation and exchanges in the potato industry, promoting the healthy development of my country’s potato industry, and exploring the development of the potato staple food industry. Wu Qi, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Huang Sanwen, president of the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Jin Liping, president of the Potato Professional Committee of the Chinese Crop Society, international experts invited by the International Potato Center, and members of the National Potato Industry Technology Innovation Alliance.
Potatoes are versatile ingredients that can be fried, fried, boiled, deep-fried, roasted, boiled, stewed, grilled, or “puffed”. Since the Ministry of Agriculture launched the “potato staple food development” strategy at the beginning of last year, Chinese people have gradually realized its full nutritional advantages, and have used their wisdom to use traditional Chinese cooking techniques to develop potato delicacies. Judging from the scene, no matter the style or the taste, it is as amazing as Sun Monkey’s seventy-two changes.
The Organizing Committee of the Potato Expo specially planned a national collection of “China’s 100 Potato Foods” half a year ago. The “Potato Gourmet Kitchen”, planned and organized by Aiquanshu Brand Management Company, displayed the collection results at the Potato Expo. A variety of potato delicacies from all over the country subverted the reporter’s traditional impression of how to eat potatoes. In particular, the demonstration of on-site processing and production of potato delicacies in the central display area not only allows the public to have a sneak peek and seeing is believing, but also allows the public to taste it with their own mouths and feel the charm of potato delicacies with the tip of their tongues. Organize the guests to observe and investigate the local characteristic industries, traditional culture, and the new look of the countryside.
Let’s take a closer look at what delicious meals this “Potato Gourmet Kitchen” has prepared for you: potato steamed buns, potato rolls, potato biscuits, potato snacks, potato noodles, potato pancakes, French fries, potato dumplings , mashed potatoes, raw potato juice… It is simply the “Manchu Banquet” in the potato world. The most striking thing is the double-layer potato cake with a diameter of two meters, and various shapes made of potatoes for viewing.
During the solicitation process of “100 Potato Delicacy”, many enterprises presented their best products. The large-scale production of potato flour steamed buns and flower rolls launched by New East Valley are rich in vitamins, minerals and other nutrients; the potato drink provided by Xisen Group retains the richness of high-quality purple potatoes to the greatest extent. Substances such as anthocyanins and polyphenols; there is also “Fangshan Fried Evil” from Shanxi, which integrates regional characteristic food culture into potato delicacies, which is eye-catching; Beijing potato chef Zhang Aiguo brought various Potato snacks, using baking technology to make mouth-watering potato biscuits and desserts; there is also fresh potato juice squeezed from purple potatoes, which has a unique flavor…Let consumers intuitively understand that potatoes can make such rich delicacies, and then they are willing Eat more potatoes. “
The United Nations lists potatoes as one of the four major staple foods in the world, not only because it is delicious and versatile, but also because it is rich in nutrition, so the United Nations calls it “perfect food”. According to nutrition experts, potatoes have the most complete vitamin content among all food crops, and their content is equivalent to twice that of carrots, three times that of Chinese cabbage, four times that of tomatoes, and four times that of apples in B vitamins. In particular, potatoes contain carotene and vitamin C that are not found in cereal grains. The vitamin C contained in potatoes is 10 times that of apples, and it is resistant to heat.
In addition to being nutritious, potatoes are also a dual-purpose crop for grain, vegetables, feed, and processing. They have wide applicability, high yield, rich nutrition, and high economic benefits, and have great crop advantages. Because potatoes consume more water, light, and land resources per unit area and produce more calories and high-quality protein than ordinary crops, they are considered to be one of the best choices for coping with global population growth and ensuring food security and complete nutrition. Considering the environmental effects, potatoes have less impact on the environment than all major food crops. According to relevant data, the land area required to produce one kilogram of beans is three times that of producing one kilogram of potatoes, and the area of land required to produce one kilogram of rice is twice that of producing one kilogram of potatoes. Potatoes require half as much water as beans and a quarter as much as rice. The carbon dioxide emission of potatoes is 30% of that of macaroni and 18% of that of rice. If potato yields could keep growing at the same rate as other crops have grown over the past 20 years, it would be less of a burden on the environment.
In addition, the diversity of potato varieties is another major advantage of it. According to statistics, my country’s potato resource bank and various breeding units alone have preserved more than 5,000 germplasm resources, evaluated and identified more than 2,000 germplasm resources, and screened out many disease-resistant, drought-resistant, frost-resistant and high-quality breeding materials. The identification and evaluation of important traits such as tuber quality, disease resistance and stress resistance have been established.
China is one of the countries with the richest potato resources in the world. Since the potato was introduced to China by Portuguese merchants 400 years ago, it has gradually become an important member of the large-scale planted crops in my country. At present, China is the world’s largest potato producer, with potato production accounting for 28% of the world’s total. Over the years, governments at all levels in my country have attached great importance to the development of the potato industry, taking it as an important measure to ensure food security, promote poverty alleviation and development, and increase farmers’ income. So far, potato cultivation has spread all over the country, with a planting area of about 84 million mu, forming a cultivation area based on different resource conditions. Driven by the strong market demand and the strong support of related agricultural technologies, China’s potato industry has developed rapidly, the industrial chain has been effectively expanded, product categories have become increasingly rich, and the overall strength of enterprises has continued to increase. The industry’ is gradually becoming the highlight of efficient agriculture and modern agricultural construction.”
Although my country’s potato area and output rank first in the world, the industrial potential is still huge. According to comparable FAO figures, maize and soybean yields have doubled over the past 20 years, and rice has grown by 40 percent. Potato yields increased the least, at 18%. In addition, in recent years, China’s per capita potato consumption is about 42 kg/year, which is far below the per capita consumption level of the world’s largest potato consuming countries. At the same time, the amount of fresh potatoes used by the modern potato processing industry is less than 5% of the country’s total output, and the processing space is huge. . Therefore, my country’s potato industry still has a huge room for improvement.
In order to promote the sustainable development of China’s potato industry, we need to further expand the market capacity of potatoes, and engage in relevant scientific research and production based on the market; we must strengthen the various capacity building required for industrial development, and comprehensively improve scientific research, processing, production, and storage. and management capabilities; to make full use of China’s natural resources, while expanding the potato planting area, improve the potato yield per unit area, establish a strong industrial support system needed for industrial development, and provide all-round support from policy, technology, finance, and markets. Serve.
With technological innovation, the entire industrial chain of potatoes from planting to processing and consumption in my country is steadily moving forward, especially the potato processing industry has developed rapidly. Wang Wei, chairman of the Potato Food Committee of the China Food Industry Committee, said that scientific and technological progress, especially the promotion and application of emerging technologies, will further promote the technological upgrading of potato breeding, planting, storage and transportation, processing, clean production, logistics, distribution and consumption. . The state has implemented the subsidy project for primary processing of agricultural products, and 41,000 potato storage cellars have been built in 14 provinces across the country, with a new storage capacity of 1.16 million tons. The enhancement of potato storage capacity has driven the integrated development of its primary, secondary and tertiary industries.
In spring, 480,000 mu of spring potatoes in Tengzhou City, Shandong Province welcomed a bumper harvest. Walking into Longyang Town, Tengzhou City, many potato harvesters are roaring, removing mud, sorting, bagging, and loading… The busy figures of farmers working in the fields are shuttled in the fields, and everyone’s faces are filled with The joy of harvest. “Potato prices are good this year. The net land price is between 1.7 and 1.9 yuan. The average yield per mu is about 8,000 catties, and the average income per mu is about 12,000 yuan. And the supply is in short supply.” Li Potato farmer from Congtiao Village, Longyang Town, Tengzhou City Yusheng said.
In recent years, Tengzhou City has focused on the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy, firmly grasped the advantageous and characteristic potato industry, innovated the development model, expanded and extended the industrial chain, polished the Tengzhou potato brand, and created an “upgraded version” of the potato industry.
Longyang Town is the main potato producing area in Tengzhou. The annual potato planting area in spring and autumn reaches 56,000 mu, and the standardized production area reaches 35,000 mu. %. 74.8% of farmers in Longyang Town are engaged in potato planting, and the per capita disposable income of rural residents is 23,090 yuan, which is 10.5% higher than that of Tengzhou City. In 2022, Longyang Town will be included in the twelfth batch of national “one village, one product” demonstration towns and the 2022 national list of towns with a rural characteristic industry output value exceeding one billion yuan.
“Our town’s achievements today are not only due to the devoted investment of the town’s party committee and government in the agricultural industry, but also thanks to the strict control of potato quality and safety all the time, which has won market recognition.” Longyang Town, Tengzhou City Agricultural Comprehensive Cao Changgong, the supervisor of the post, said.
The quality and safety of agricultural products (7.220, -0.01, -0.14%) has always been the “lifeline” of Longyang Town. In order to ensure that potatoes can meet the standards of pollution-free agricultural products and green food, Longyang Town started by strengthening the promotion of agricultural technology, reducing fertilizer and increasing efficiency, soil testing and formula fertilization, water and fertilizer integration, high-efficiency, low-toxicity and low-residue pesticides, and unified prevention and control of diseases and insect pests. and other green production technologies will be promoted throughout the town, and the agricultural product quality and safety supervision system, wholesale market, cold chain logistics and other related supporting constructions will be accelerated to form a socialized agricultural machinery service system supported by agricultural product testing, machinery maintenance, and information services. Ensure the “seamless connection” between the exit and market access of agricultural products.
Walking into the Tengyang Selenium-enriched Potato Professional Cooperative, the “Tengyang Selenium-enriched” on the packing box is particularly eye-catching. Chairman He Xingming said that under the encouragement and guidance of the town party committee and government, he led the villagers to build the first selenium-enriched potato production base in Shandong Province in 2009 and created the “Tengyang Selenium-enriched” brand. Now the price of selenium-enriched potatoes has reached 2 to 3 times that of ordinary potatoes, and the pockets of communal potato farmers are getting bigger and bigger.
Focusing on brand building, Longyang Town has implemented a brand-driven strategy in depth. The town’s potatoes have obtained 8 certifications of pollution-free agricultural products and green food, with a certified area of 35,000 mu. “Tengzhou Potato” has been registered as a geographical indication product by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Registered China Geographical Indication Trademark. The increasingly prominent brand effect has also opened up the market channel for high-end sales of “Tengzhou Potatoes”. At present, the products have been distributed in many well-known national markets such as Beijing Xinfadi and French Carrefour.
The prosperity and development of the potato industry reflects the solid steps taken by Tengzhou City in comprehensively promoting rural revitalization and promoting common prosperity. The continuous emergence of many farmers’ professional cooperatives, storage and refrigeration enterprises, agricultural product trading markets, and potato purchase and sales intermediary service organizations engaged in potato production and sales has also added a bit of “new potato light” to the great article of rural revitalization. Potato farmers are busy harvesting, and the field is busy with a bumper harvest. With the continuous improvement of planting technology, Tengzhou’s potato production and output value are also increasing year by year, becoming the “golden egg” for local villagers to increase their income and become rich.
In the main potato production area of Jiehe Town, Tengzhou City, as the harvester roared past, yellow and round potatoes broke through the ground one by one. The growers were busy sorting and loading the fresh potatoes to the whole country as soon as possible. everywhere.
Liu Jun, deputy mayor of Jiehe Town, Tengzhou City, said that it is now the time for multi-film-covered potatoes to be concentrated on the market. Merchants from all over the country gather in Jiehe, and the purchase price of high-quality potatoes has reached more than 2 yuan per catty, achieving a double harvest of potato production and benefits.
With the successful development of potato series staple food products, potato flour as a raw material will face a huge demand, which will greatly promote the development of the whole flour processing industry. Ningxia Xihaigu Guolian Potato Industry Co., Ltd. has successfully developed the raw whole powder production process for the first time in the country, bringing technological innovation to the potato whole powder processing industry. According to Huang Zhifu, manager of Guolian Potato Industry Co., Ltd., the whole powder is obtained by peeling and drying fresh potatoes, and its production technology and equipment were imported from abroad in the mid-1990s. Ingredients for fast food. Because the whole powder production process includes drying and cooking, it is also called cooked whole powder. However, the high temperature causes the starch in the potato to gelatinize and melt, resulting in poor agglomeration and fermentation ability when processing staple food products. At the same time, there is still the problem of protein oxidative browning. Under this background, Guolian Potato Industry Co., Ltd. innovated and developed the production process of raw potato flour, namely Fresh Potato Flour.
“Raw whole powder contains all the nutrients in fresh potatoes and maintains its integrity and activity. Its production process is a full physical process without any additives. The low temperature in the whole process ensures that the whole components and potato cells are also preserved. Integrity and moderate proportion of free starch.” Huang Zhifu said that when raw whole flour is used to make staple food products, the dough’s agglomeration and fermentability are significantly better than cooked whole flour. “This year, we will cooperate with other enterprises to put into operation a raw powder line with an annual output of 10,000 tons.”
With the accelerated pace of economic globalization, the advanced potato processing technology and equipment and new products of developed countries are being promoted to the Chinese market at an accelerated pace. It will build a good platform for accelerating the development of my country’s potato industry, enhancing international exchanges and cooperation, and expanding the international market.
Located at an altitude of 3,800 meters in the Andes Mountains, “De Kaka” Lake (transliteration) is one of the highest lakes in the world, located at the junction of Peru and Bolivia. This is the hometown of one of the most important food crops for human beings – potato. The ancient Indians kicked off the human consumption of potatoes here.
About 7,000 years ago, an Indian tribe migrated from the east, which is the virgin forest along the Amazon River Basin, to the alpine Andes in order to avoid the attacks of poisonous insects, wild animals and other tribes. Set up camp near the Lake District, where wild potatoes were discovered and started to be eaten.
The plains around Lake Kaka are a place where food is scarce. The products here are far less abundant than the virgin forests along the Amazon River Basin. Here, cassava cannot grow well, corn cannot bear fruit normally, and hunger forces them to search for new food while hunting.
At this time, a miracle appeared. They found a kind of food that grew underground and could be eaten-the tubers of wild potatoes. In the foothills of the Andes Mountains there are many varieties of wild potatoes. From then on, the ancient Indians used potatoes as their main food.
Potatoes are tuber crops. The stems buried in the ground are swollen and contain a lot of starch, which can provide rich nutritional energy for the eaters. There is no doubt that this new discovery saved the ancient Indians who were starving and embarrassing at that time. Lighted up a glimmer of life for their way out.
With the passage of time, the relationship between potatoes and ancient Indians has become more and more closely related. According to an ancient legend that has been handed down to this day, potatoes are considered to be a gift from God to Indians living in the mountains of alpine regions. In the surrounding areas of Kaka Lake, planting potatoes is still one of the most important agricultural activities. Among the sacrifices and celebrations of the local indigenous people, an important festival is the Potato Festival.
Today, more than 7,000 years later, potatoes have blossomed all over the world, and my country has also become the world’s largest potato growing country. Potatoes are widely planted in various ecological regions of our country due to their wide adaptability, good yield, rich nutrition and high economic benefits. Potato varieties have also been domesticated step by step from the original wild potatoes with a little toxin, and have been selected and bred into high-quality varieties with high yield and disease resistance.
Xiaonong will introduce to you today “Zhongshu No. 5” bred by the team of Jin Liping, a researcher at the Vegetable and Flower Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. The experts of Jin Liping’s researcher team worked a lot during the breeding period.
It is reported that “black” has become the symbol of the scientific research team. During the breeding and promotion period, in order to save time, Dr. Jin Liping and her team members often go to the field with dry food in the Guyuan mountain area, eat a few bites in the field at noon, sit on the ground and rest for a while before continuing to work. At eight or nine in the evening, when I returned to my place of residence, I didn’t even have time to rest, but sorted out the materials overnight.
It was reported that “their faces were tanned darker than potatoes. When working with farmers, it was difficult to distinguish who was a farmer and who was a doctor”, and “Jin Liping’s tan was particularly ‘level'”.
Let’s join the small farmers to see how excellent the “Zhongshu No. 5” cultivated by the team is!
“Zhongshu 5” was systematically selected from the natural fruiting offspring of “Zhongshu 3” by the Vegetable and Flower Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. It passed the Beijing Municipal Approval in 2001, the National Crop Variety Approval in 2004, and 2012. Passed the approval of crop varieties in Hubei Province.
Zhongshu No. 5 is an early-maturing variety that can be harvested 60 days after emergence. Early tuber formation, concentrated tuber formation, rapid expansion, high rate of commercial tubers, and good properties of tuber cubes. The taste and flavor of fried food are good, and the color of fried slices is light. The dry matter content of fresh potato is about 19%, the starch content is 13%, the crude protein content is 2%, and the vitamin C content is 20mg/100g fresh potato.
The outstanding advantages of Zhongshu 5 are early maturity, high yield, resistance to late blight, strong growth potential, drought resistance and water and fertilizer tolerance, and wide adaptability. It is suitable for two-season cropping areas and one-season cropping areas with severe late blight. Interplanting.
It is planted in Guizhou and Sichuan provinces, with less fertilization and low input. Zhongshu 5 is resistant to barrenness and has become the main cultivar in Qiandongnan, Qiannan, Chengdu Plain and Western Sichuan Plateau.
Zhongshu No. 5 has a short dormancy period and is suitable for cultivation in autumn. Autumn cropping potatoes in the second cropping area of the Central Plains and the Southwest Mountains are on the market, which is the off-season for the national potato market supply. The long dormant period and late emergence of varieties are the main factors restricting high yields. The dormancy period of Zhongshu No. 5 is 15 days shorter than that of Feiwu Ruita, and it is suitable for autumn crop cultivation. It is currently used in Sichuan, Guizhou, Hunan, Hubei, and central and southern Hebei, and has become the main autumn crop variety in the local area.
Field and indoor inoculation of Zhongshu No. 5 identified plant resistance to potato late blight and major viral diseases such as PVX, PVY and PLRV. It breaks through the bottleneck that early-maturing varieties are not resistant to late blight, fills the gap in China, and has better comprehensive resistance than similar varieties at home and abroad, and provides parents for the improvement of early-maturing varieties in the future.
Not only that, but the yield of Zhongshu No. 5 is also very high, even higher than some late-maturing potato varieties.
In Changli County, Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province, Zhongshu No. 5 has a maximum yield of 5,300 kilograms per mu, which is more than 20% higher than other varieties. In 2015, 53 domestic varieties were planted in the World Potato Conference in Chabei Management District, Hebei Province. The yield of Zhongshu No. 5 ranked fourth, equivalent to 3621.48 kg per mu, ranking first among early-maturing varieties. In 2012 and 2014, Zhejiang Lanxi High-Yield Creation achieved an average yield of 2943.9 kg per 1,000 mu.
For thousands of years, through careful selection and breeding from generation to generation, the growing scale of planting has gradually enriched the vegetable baskets of more and more urban residents in the world. Bring huge social and economic benefits to mankind.
