First International Potato Day connects

On May 30 this year, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) celebrated the first edition of the International Potato Day, with the theme ‘Harvesting diversity, feeding hope’. The initiative was not only celebrated at the FAO headquarters in Rome, but received widespread attention on all continents. ‘The potato is the most important life-saving staple food and nutritious vegetable crop in the world’, FAO Director General Qu Dongyu said in a video message, highlighting the importance of the potato worldwide.