POTATO CULTIVATION
Potato production world-wide amounts to little less than 300 million tons, the main producers being Russia, Poland, China, Germany, the United States, India and the Netherlands.
Italy grows about 1,500,000 tons of common potatoes, a crop which occupies approximately 60,000 hectares. Forty-five per cent of the total national harvest comes from three regions alone: Campania (22%), Emilia-Romagna (12%) and Abruzzo (11%). Other important potato-growing areas are Latium, the Veneto and Calabria.
The Italian production of early potatoes amounts to 600,000 tons, cultivated on a land surface of about 30,000 hectares. This crop is found mainly in the southern regions of Campania, Apulia, Sicily and Calabria.
The most widespread varieties of eating potatoes are Primura, Monalisa, Sirco, Arsy and Agata, while the most common new potatoes are Alcmaria and Aminca. Potatoes for industrial processing are Hermes in the north, Agria in the centre, and Lady Rosetta in the south.

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