Potato

                                                                         POTATO                                                                             
          Potato is a kind of vegetable. This is mostly used for cooking dishes. All over the world it is used to make variety of foods.There are about 5000 potato varieties all over the world.Three thousands of them are found in Andes alone mainly in Peru,Bolivia,Equatar,Chile and Columbia. Most modern potatoes were grown in North America arrived through settlement and not indepentently from the South American sources.Potatoes were introduced to Europe in the second half of the 16th century by the Spanish. Today they are a stable food in many parts of the world and an integral part of the worlds food supply. As of 2014 potatoes were the worlds fourth largest food crop. Potatoes were domesticated approximately 7000 - 10000 years ago.Potato plants are herbaceoes perennials that grow about 69 cm high. They bear white,blue,pink and red flowers with yellow stamens. Potatoes are mostly cross pollinated by insect such as bumblebees and some more.                     
             
In 2014 world production of potatoes was 382 million tones. China is in first place for produce potatoes. India,Russia,Ukraine and USA are other countries produce potatoes. it has a rich source of vitamin B6 and vitamin C. The potato is rarely eaten raw because raw potato starch is poorly digested by humans In 2014 potato production of China was 95.5 million tones. India 46.4 million tones, Russia 31.5 million tones, Ukrain 23.7 million tones and USA 20.1 million tones. In India potato cultivated many parts of the country. In Tamilnadu potato cultivated mostly in hills areas. Mostly we see potato fields in Nilgiris district because of climate and soil. Harvested potatoes in Nilgiris are transported to other parts of the country such as Chennai, Coimbatore ,Madurai and more places. Potato, cabbage,carrot are mostly cultivated in Nilgiris. Near state Kerala the potatoes get main place for making foods. Other nearest state Karnataka also get a benefit of nilgiris potato for their cooking.                                                                                                                                                   Potato recipies are sweet and taste. Potato halwa very sweet because of its mixing of sugar and milk.Also potato bonda is famous in tamil culture. Potato masala is used to have eat with poori. Potato side dish is tastiest one for rice food. So we all of us have a good taste for potato recipies all day.      

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