Potato is a plant with an edible tuber that is used often in cuisine. Do you like potatoes?
I hear that the potato was a reason the Irish were in a famine. Can you tell me more about the tubular, plant?
I think It occurred in the 1840s and many starved due to a shortage of potatoes.
That is sad. I would think that other crops were available or the potato could easily feed them. Maybe it was a soil problem?
I'm not quite sure. But I know that potatoes are the world's 4th most used crop
Really? What about corn or rice? Rice is probably first.
Rice and maize and wheat are ahead of potatoes in world production of crops.
I love rice. Jasmin Rice is my favorite with cheese. Do you like rice?
Rice
Rice is the seed of the grass species "Oryza sativa" (Asian rice) or "Oryza glaberrima" (African rice). As a cereal grain, it is the most widely consumed staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in Asia. It is the agricultural commodity with the third-highest worldwide production (rice, 741.5 million tonnes in 2014), after sugarcane (1.9 billion tonnes) and maize (1.0 billion tonnes).
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Corn Laws in mid-century, when Britain adopted a free trade policy, and grain imports from America undermined the profitability of crop production. The Irish potato famine of the 1840s was caused by a plant disease that reached the Highlands in 1846, where 150,000 people faced disaster because their food supply was largely potatoes (with a little herring, oatmeal and milk). They were rescued by an effective emergency relief system that stands in dramatic contrast to the failures of relief in Ireland.
19th century Rural life.
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