The first generation of potato steamed bread is supplied more than 1 ton in Beijing and Japan.

A few days ago, the "Potato staple Food Development Technology Cooperation Group" prepared and set up by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the planting Department of the Ministry of Agriculture held its inaugural meeting in Beijing. In the future, relevant domestic scientific research institutions, institutions of higher learning, enterprises and social organizations will carry out scientific research, technological research and development, achievements transformation, and market development under the connection of technical cooperation groups.

In July 2013, the Ministry of Agriculture launched the development of potato staple food products and industries, according to Chen Mengshan, party secretary of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Over the past two years, the experts of the project team of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences have overcome some technical problems, such as few special varieties, weak adhesion of whole potato powder, poor forming ability, lack of special processing machinery, lack of nutritional efficiency research, and so on, and made important phased progress. On June 1 this year, the first generation of potato steamed bread, which accounts for 30% of total potato flour, was successfully put on the market in Beijing. Up to now, the first generation of potato steamed bread has been sold in more than 200 supermarkets in Beijing, and manufacturers have produced and supplied more than 1 ton of potato steamed bread every day.

Dai Xiaofeng, the first chairman of the Potato staple Food Development Technology Cooperation Group and director of the processing Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said that in the next step, the cooperation group will support each other, share resources, coordinate innovation, give full play to the role of cooperation, continue to carry out scientific and technological innovation, break through the key issues of research and development, achieve product serialization, diversification, and echelon, and increase the social coverage of the potato staple food industry.