Akhilesh Yadav, the national president of the Samajwadi Party in India, said that his party's administration will provide subsidies for the establishment of potato processing enterprises, as well as the construction of distilleries in the state of Uttar Pradesh: in Agra, Kannauj and Farrukhabad, where surplus potatoes will be used to make alcohol. drink, according to the krishijagran.com portal.
Yadav said that the share of vodka in the Indian alcoholic beverage market has been consistently growing over the past five years, so it makes sense to give farmers in the main potato state the opportunity to prevent overproduction losses. The country's government promised to buy surplus farm potatoes, but so far the situation has not changed.
In the world production of vodka, potato alcohol occupies about 3%, since it is believed that there are more problems with this raw material (cleaning, fermentation) than with grain.
Manufacturers who have entered the niche of potato vodka believe that they can provide the consumer with alcohol with a more pronounced nutty flavor.
At the moment, there are private factories and brands for the production of these products in the USA, Austria, Great Britain, Poland, Sweden, Germany.