In order to subsidize potato producers, technological innovation and potato processing orders, the autonomous region has allocated 5% of the national subsidy to subsidize potato producers, with a one-time reward of 5 million yuan for varieties with an annual promotion area of more than 654.38+10,000 mu and a one-time reward of100,000 yuan for varieties with an annual promotion area of more than 300,000 mu.

Potato belongs to the genus Panicum in Solanaceae, and its tuber is edible, which is the fourth largest food crop in the world, second only to wheat, rice and corn. Potatoes are also called potato, potato head, sweet potato, potato, potato and so on. Datong, Shanxi is also called yam.