Pakistan
Although potato was grown on the Indian subcontinent from the late 16th or early 17th centuries, at Pakistan's foundation in 1947 cultivation was restricted to a few thousand acres and total annual output was less than 33 000 tons.
In the decades since independence, potato has become the country's fastest growing staple food crop. Thanks to strong gains in area cultivated and average yields - both made possible mainly by irrigation - output rose between 1995 and 2007 from 1.1 million to a record of almost 2.9 million tons. The lion's share of potato production comes from the Punjab, where spring and autumn crops account for 85 percent of the national harvest.
Apart from some subsistence growers in the north, most Pakistani farmers produce for urban markets rather than household consumption, and the potato has become a significant source of rural income (worth some $300 million in 2005). At present, annual intake is around 24 lb per capita.
Further details from CIP's World Potato Atlas