China to boost potato production (Xinhua) Updated: 2007-10-05 10:07 China will boost potato production and development of industries based on the crop as a way to improve the country's grain security and to increase income for farmers. While addressing a recent national experience-sharing meeting on development of potato-based industries in Dingxi City, Northwest China's Gansu Province, Wei Chao'an, Vice Minister of Agriculture, explained China, with a huge population, limited land, shortage of water resources, it is very difficult to expand the area of irrigated farmland.
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