[慢速VOA]土豆缓解粮价上涨(1) [080531]

UN Aims to Raise Potatoes' Appeal(1/2)

Some governments and agricultural experts have this advice to help people deal with high grain prices: Eat more potatoes.

The United Nations has declared two thousand eight the International Year of the Potato. There is even a Web site to help bring more attention to the world’s third most important food crop, after rice and wheat: potato2008.org.

The world produced three hundred twenty million tons of the vegetable last year, about the same as in two thousand five. The top five producers were China, Russia, India, Ukraine and the United States. India hopes to double production in the next five years.

Officials in Bangladesh say that country produced a record eight million tons this season. Prices for rice, the main food crop, have doubled in Bangladesh in the past year. Potatoes now cost much less than rice.

Yet potatoes are not an especially popular food choice in Bangladesh. The government hopes that will change. And some Bangladeshis may have no choice. Soldiers are now being served potatoes as part of their daily food. The International Potato Center in Lima, Peru, says potatoes could offer better food security for at least twenty Asian countries.

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一些政府和农业专家为帮助人们应对居高不下的粮价提供了如下建议：吃更多的土豆。

联合国已经宣布2008年为"国际土豆年"。甚至建立了一个网站：potato2008.org 来帮助人们更多的关注继大米和稻谷之后的世界第三大重要农作物。

去年，全球生产了3.2亿吨土豆，与2005大致相当。前5位的生产国分别是中国，俄国，印度，乌克兰和美国。印度希望未来五年中，其产量翻倍。

孟加拉国的官员说，该国创下了该季度产土豆八百万吨的记录。去年，主要粮食作物大米的价格在孟加拉已经增长了一倍。现在土豆比大米便宜的多。

然而，土豆在孟加拉不是人们首选的食物。政府希望这种情况有所改变。而且，一些孟加拉人别无选择。现在，马铃薯是士兵们日常食物的一部分.在秘鲁首都利马的国际土豆中心称土豆至少可以为二十个亚洲国家提供更好的食物保障。

相关链接：International Year of the Potato 

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