Potato Marketing in North Sumatra and an Assessment of Indonesia's Potato Trade

摘要

Potato production in Indonesia has rapidly grown over the past several decades and Indonesia has become the largest potato producer in Southeast Asia. Between 1969-1995, potato production in Indonesia grew by an average of over 1 3 per cent per year,more rapidly than any other country in the world. By the mid 1990s, total annual production exceeded 1 million tons. Most of the growth in production has come from an increase in potato planted area and secondarily from improvements in yield (Adiyoga, 1999).