How much land in Ireland is used for growing potatoes?

Question

Or are they still being grown there?

Answer 1

The 1999 figures show a very slight decrease in area from 39000 acres to 387000 acres ...

Answer 2

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Answer 3

In 1845 before the potato blight, Ireland grew 2,516,000 acres of potatoes. Today around 38,000 acres.  Many potatoes are produced by dairy farmers who set aside an acre to grow for the workers and supply manure to fertilize it. These would be recorded as dairy acres.

E.U. production today runs at 45 million tonnes and is still dominated by four countries - Germany (11.3 million tonnes), U.K. (6.6 million tonnes), France (6.5 million tonnes), and the Netherlands (6.0 million tonnes). Spain and Italy follow with 3.2 million and 2.3 million tonnes respectively. Ireland, Finland and Austria are close together producing in the region of 600,000 tonnes each.