Beijing suburb will pioneer research, development in growing sector

Yanqing county in the northern suburb of Beijing is an ideal area to grow high-quality potatoes. The climate is perfect and the soil should produce bumper yields of the vegetable.

Already the county has cultivated more than 10 varieties of potatoes at the seed stage.

It is also the home of the newly established China branch of the International Potato Center, a global scientific research organization that seeks to reduce poverty and achieve food security on a sustained basis in developing countries.