Band 4+: The tables below provide information about the consumption and production of potatoes in five parts of the world in 2006. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant

The given chart illustrates how potatoes were facilitated on the concept of demand and supply market in five different continents.

Overall, potatoes were shown to be a popular choice all over the world, with an average of 96,1 kilograms consumed annually by Europeans, making it the primary consumer of potatoes, while the cultivation of potatoes complemented Asia with gross revenue brought by exporting over 100 kilograms of potatoes, given that just 25.8 kilograms of potatoes were consumed in Asia in 2006.

Regarding the potatoes manufacturing in 2006, we can clearly see a huge difference between the two leading continents, Asia and Europe versus the others. While Europeans were more self-catering, with a less incompatible distinction between the residents’ demand and the cultivation of potatoes in the region, Asia, despite the fact that it was the most productive region in the manufacturing of potatoes. followed a reverse trend, with most of the Asians’ crops being sold to other continents, leaving them with 25.8 kilograms of potatoes consumed annually. People coming from other continents predictably did not favour farming crops, shown through their data that suggested a low and impoverished crops’ production rate, with Americans being 24.7, Africans being 16.4 and South and Central Americans being 15.6, meaning they contributed the least to the world’s potatoes bank, respectively.

Scrutinizing the consumability of potatoes over the five continents, Europeans triumphantly ranked the first in comparison with the others, followed by North Americans that took in 57.6 kilograms of potatoes a year as part of their diet. Specifically, given that North Americans used to produce only 24.7 kilograms of potatoes a year, we can clearly see that North Americans heavily relied on importation of potatoes to keep up with the residents’ demand. Asians, as aforesaid, but for having the highest grossing of potatoes in general, exported most of their crops to the other continents, resulting in a relatively low consumption rate of potatoes, and this was tightly followed by South and Central Americans with only a few percent below. The lowest yet being the most efficient nation in potatoes’ export and import level was Africa, given the balanced production and consumption data of the continent.