Beijing - The government is looking at root and tuber crops, especially potato and sweet potato, to ensure adequate food supply for its rising population. Xie Kaiyun, a leading potato scientist at the ...

The potato is one of the world's food staples, first cultivated thousands of years ago in the Andes region of South America before spreading globally from the 16th century. But despite its importance ...

The young man at the supermarket checkout counter looked puzzled. "You have a lot of obscure things in here," he said, nodding at my basket. He didn't know any of the codes for such ambiguous items as ...