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Change in Area of Potatoes, 1991 to 2001
Abstract
Times have changed for Bud the Spud since Stompin’ Tom Connors wrote his famous song in 1969. Today, Bud’s truckloads of potatoes don’t always come from Charlottetown or Summerside on Prince Edward Island — more and more of them come from Western Canada — and they get shipped all over the world. Potatoes, especially processing potatoes, have become a major Canadian commodity; the 2002 crop had a total farm value of 978.0 million Canadian dollars.
The expansion of the industry is directly related to an international love affair with french fries. In the 1999 to 2000 crop year, Canada exported 637.3 million Canadian dollars worth of frozen fries and imported 18.1 million Canadian dollars worth, for a healthy trade surplus of 619.2 million dollars.
This map corresponds to an article published in the Statistics Canada publication Canadian Agriculture at Glance. This is a full-colour book of short analytical articles on the agriculture sector.
The data used to make this map are derived from the 2001 Census of Agriculture. For further information on this census and other important mapping information, please read the following Data and Mapping Notes.
The map and accompanying text have been published in partnership with Census of Agriculture, Statistics Canada and The Atlas of Canada, Natural Resources Canada.
Other Maps in this Series:
- Grape Area in Production, 2001 Map | Read about this map
- Area Irrigated in Western Canada, 2001 Map | Read about this map
- Change in Greenhouse Area, 1991 to 2001 Map | Read about this map
- Very Large Livestock Farms, 2001 Map | Read about this map
- Very Large Livestock Farms, 2001 (Western Canada) Map | Read about this map
