Potatoe

The potato is a root vegetable, a starchy tuber of the plant Solanum tuberosum, and the plant itself, a perennial in the family Solanaceae.Its rich starch content makes it the fourth most cultivated and the most consumed non-grain crop in the world. Potato is widely believed to have first being cultivated in the Andes region. Studies have shown that potato cultivation is responsible for one-fourth of the growth in the old world population and urbanization, as such potato is very important to man.
In Nigeria, it is the third most important root and tuber crop after yam and cassava. It was introduced to Nigeria by European miners around the 1940's, and with a total yield of 180 tonnes then, its cultivation has come a long way with yields of over 1,000,000 tons in 2012 harvested from over 300,000 hectares of farmland.