About 200 years ago during the reign of Fath-Ali shah of Ghajar dine sty, sir John Melkom, the then ambassador of the Britain’s government in Iran presented some potato sides to the court of the ghajar king. The seeds where first planted in Pashand, village in the suburb of Tehran, and then in Faridan in Isfahan and eventually in Zangan, Khorasan and Fars.

Presently potato is the one of the most important agricultural products and the basic food for larg number of people in Iran as well as the world.

In the farming year 1995-96 the land under cultivation in Iran was 14300 hectares with a yield of about 21 tons per hectares. More than 3.1 million tons of the potato was produced in the same years. Ardebil with the total production 744000 tons took the first place followed by Isfahan, east Azarbaijan and Khorasan.