date:Nov 28, 2013
of the industrial use is in value-added food products, mostly snacks (chips).
Food consumption of potatoes reached a maximum of 18.8 MMT in 1993 as the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the severe economic crisis, resulted in higher consumption of a lower-cost source of calories, and one that could be produced by household/backyard farms. After this period, and with the opening up of the Russian economy, greater access to a variety of foods and higher incomes, potato food consumption fell.