China: Gansu potato relies on improved varieties to double

On April 29, Gansu Province's high-standard farmland construction abandoned land improvement and potato green standardization base construction on-site promotion meeting learned that Gansu will achieve 1,300 potato planting areas in Gansu Province by 2023 through the breeding of potato varieties and the construction of green standardization bases. 10,000 mu, the total output of fresh potatoes reached 21 million tons, the original seed production was 1.5 billion, the original seed production was more than 1 million tons, and the total output value reached 40 billion yuan. Gansu is one of the main potato producing areas in the country, and its potato planting area and total output are among the top three in the country. Seed potatoes are the "chips" for the development of the potato industry. Dingxi City, Gansu is also the first batch of regional potato varieties recognized by the Ministry of Agriculture. Potato breeding base. Wang Yihang, a researcher at the Potato Research ...