Potato growers in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan's second-largest spud-producing region, are pinning their hopes on a new disease-resistant variety to avoid another crop shortage of the kind that halted sales of chips and other snack products this year.The prefecture plans to expand the cultivation of the tasty new variety, suitable for chips and other processed products, as it expects strong demand driven by popular takeaway items such as fries and croquettes.
According to the Japan Snack Cereal Foods Association, the volume of potato chip shipments in Japan rose by over 30 percent between 2004…READ FULL ARTICLE
