There would be hardly any person in India who does not eat potatoes. Here potatoes are used in all kinds of vegetables. As samosa is eaten with great fervor all over India, it is not even possible to think of it without potatoes. Aloo Paratha is one of the most delicious winter food. Potato is even called the king of vegetables in India. But do you know that potato is not Indian. Rather this king of vegetables is foreign. Today in this article we will give you all the information related to potato.
Where did the potato come from
It is said that till the 16th century only the people of Peru knew potato, apart from this the whole world was unaware of this crop. But when Christopher Columbus set out on a journey around the world, he took potatoes to all the different continents of the world by sea. However, the potato came to India with Portuguese and Dutch traders and first reached the Malabar coast line and then spread across Bengal to northern India.
Potato grown in space
Potato is the first such crop to grow on the earth, which has also been grown outside this earth. In early 1995, in a joint mission between China and NASA, potatoes were sent into space outside the Earth and it was grown here for the first time.
The British East India Company carried it from door to door
After the 18th century, when the East India Company started feeling the shortage of potato in India, it adopted the policy of growing it in India instead of importing it from Europe. Under this policy, the East India Company sold potato plants to farmers in large quantities at cheap prices, then gradually potato became a crop grown in every farm.