date:Nov 28, 2013
ussia has been decreasing in the past two decades, not only due to lower food use, but even more so due to decreasing industrial consumption. Industrial consumption/use of potatoes in Russia reached a maximum of 18.0 MMT in 1996, and the dropped to 11.2 MMT in 2006 and 2007, before recovering somewhat and by 2012 reaching 12.6 MMT annually. While in the first half of 1990s the bulk of industrial consumption of potato was in the form of non-food alcohol, this has shifted dramatically and now more