For quality reasons, most potatoes for fries were imported into China, said Henk Baarveld of the Dutch Potato Institute. China needs foreign input to improve its low output potato industry. For example, seeders rights in China are only protected for 15 years. In the EU it is 30 years. Fifteen years is just too short to get a return on your investment for research and development when you get protection of your rights anyway.
China needs quality if it wants to produce for export and grow.
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