Argentina: Potato overtakes steaks on consumption

And the day came when steaks (as a synthesis of all the dishes that can be made from beef) began to occupy less space on the Argentine plate than French fries or mashed potatoes. Before, the potato was just a side to the meat. The famous garnish. But now the average consumption of potatoes in the country has jumped sharply and surpassed that of beef. The sharp decline in this item helps, but also a growth of the tuber in the local diet. If meat intake is currently around 50.6 kilos per year per inhabitant (according to official data published by the Ministry of Agriculture), potato consumption reached 52 kilos in 2020. Now we eat more potato than steak. The calculation on the internal consumption of the vegetable is not official, since the State offers little material on this crop. But the source is very reliable. It was disseminated by the Faculty of Agrarian Sciences of Balcarce, located in the main paper zone of the country. That house of studies proposed to update the latest ...