On Processing Potato. 5. Survey of Societal Benefits, Stewardship and Surroundings

Abstract Wheat, the most important food crop, can be stored for a much longer time than potato. It is ground and made into flour or pasta that turned bread dish at any time. Potato only storable limited period, so it floods market harvest. Major benefits of processing growers include regulating availability markets price through contracts, decrease in number consumers buying fresh tubers compensated by processors raw material. Processors add value employment are offered wide array affordable convenient products. Large potato companies produce annual sustainability reports advocating measures to spare habitat, more efficient processes factories, newer healthier products supporting communities. These recorded viewed theoretical triangulation from angles processors, those trying bend rules. The industry, especially when expanding new (developing) markets, faces political, economic, social, technological, environmental legal (PESTEL) issues fluctuate according presence material base, competition power culture consumers.