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China is the world's biggest potato producer, with output in 2007 of 72 million tonnes (or more than 20 percent of the global harvest).

It is also an increasingly important global supplier, with potato exports totaling some 225 000 tonnes (raw equivalent) in 2005.

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This is a very interesting question, and hard to answer without reading from the below link: http://www.indepthinfo.com/potato/history.shtml

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Spain via Basque fishermen who stored potatoes on their ship in the 14th century. The fishermen would often stop in Western Ireland to dry their cod supplies.

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it was Germany in 1676

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