Descriptive Timeline of Potato Crop, from its beginnings in Meso-America, followed by its sporadic preference in the Old World post Columbian Exchange. The slideshow traces the advent, the popularity, the impact as well as the current scenario in which food crop potato operates...

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Potato:TheHumbleTuber thatChanged TheWorld!

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3. The Potato had humble beginnings in
South America, back in the ancient
historical time. Noted as the fifth most
important crop worldwide today, potato
scores after wheat, corn, rice and
sugarcane respectively in terms of
sustenance and dependance (Mann, 2011).
TheMostImportant Crop

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5. The Columbian Exchange i.e. the
flow of animals, plants, microbes
and living organisms across the
Atlantic resulted in unleashing
forces that were of global
consequences. The pioneering
work of Alfred Crosby shed
extensive light on this subject, and
how the Potato travelled across the
Atlantic in the fifteenth-sixteenth
centuries (Beck, 2015).
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6. Potatoes steadily spread to
Italy and other European
countries from Spain during
the late 1500s. And Solanum
tuberosum had by 1600
reached deeper into the heart
of Europe, Holland, Austria,
France, Belgium, England,
Switzerland, Portugal,
Germany and Ireland
(Chapman).
TheSpread

7. First was in Altiplano, wherein the tuber served
the Incan Empire and its predecessors with its
principal source of energy. Secondly in the
Spanish Empire and also northern Europe,
potatoes fed the rapidly growing populations, that
in the years between 1750 and 1950, permitted a
few European nations to systematically assert
their dominion over most of the civilized world
(McNeill, 1999, 67).
TheGlobalImpacts

8. It was only a matter of time before the true value
of this tuber was released, especially in times of
time of war. Statistically speaking, after 1560 till
the World War II, almost every military campaign
on European soil subsequently resulted in
increase in potato acreage (McNeill, 1999, 72).
TheGlobalImpacts

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Studying the population
trend from 1700 to
1900, an estimated 12
percent of the
population growth was
attributed to the growth
of this tuber, and so
around 47 percent of
the entire urbanization
during the above period
(Keating, 2009).

10. As the European peasant communities
eventually discovered the agricultural
benefits of this simple tuber, this resulted
in the evaporation of their reluctance of
experimenting with Potato. Potatoes
accordingly spread in unrecorded ways
from one village to another along the
Spanish Road and then more erratically
both east and west of it into the Low
Countries, western France and
southwestern Germany (McNeill, 1999, 73).
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The Industrial monoculture of potato cultivation en
masse was what that made it possible for billions to
escape poverty, firstly Europe followed suit by the rest
of the world. Potatoes, guano and corn are truly
revolutionary food, as they’ve raised the living
standards of people everywhere by twice or even
thrice, and simultaneously have shot up the world
population to seven billion from just one in under
three hundred years (Mann, 2011).
TheHumbleTuber: BoonFor oneand all!

12. In the course of the eighteenth century,
potatoes broke through garden fences
and became a field crop, supplementing
and eventually also competing with
grain. This permitted potatoes to
exercise a new, an increasingly
important influence on European
demography by enlarging the food
supply, thus inaugurating a second era
when the tubers began to affect world
history in a significant way (McNeill,
1999, 74).
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SLIDE ‘The Potato Project’ is an attempt to trace
back the ways in which potato entered the
individual diets across the world. Crosby
et al have accounted for the dramatic
increase in the world’s population during
the last five centuries with the spread of
new world foods such as maize and
potatoes (Beck, 2015).
ThePotatoProject

14. As per Cormac O Grada (Economist and
Blight historian, University College,
Dublin) Irish farmers had planted about
2.1 million acres of potatoes the year
that the blight was reported, 1845. The
blight wiped out something between a
half to three-quarters of a million acres
in just two months. The coming years
were even worse and P. infestans only
receded back in 1852. A million or more
Irish perished, one of the deadliest
famines in history. A famine on a similar
scale would wipe out almost 40 mil
people in the US alone (Mann, 2011).
TheIrish Dilemma

15. Consistently with agricultural
practices, the regions that promote
the cultivation of potato, such as the
European and Indian alluvial soil
tended to urbanize on a much faster
scale. The rate of development was
again much faster as compared to
places that are not so potato friendly,
like sub-Saharan
Africa (Keating, 2009).
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The ‘humble tuber’ is easily the world’s most popular
vegetable, as it has easily garnered appreciation from
the cuisines of cultures around the world. Its amazing
nutritional value and impressive yield, along with its
versatility with temperatures, soils as well as in the
‘kitchen’ has been some of the reasons for its immense
fame.
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17. Used readily in curries in India and
extensively in the Italian pasta, baked
with rice in Iran, stewed with
bananas in Costa Rica, stir-fried with
green beans in Ethiopia, stuffed with
liver in Belarus, and simmered with
smoked haddock in Finland. The pan-
ultimate secret of potato’s success
lies in its great diversity.
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