Seeds found again in Afghanistan
Everybody knows that potatoes don't grow on battle fields. Afghanistan is no exception. In 2002, during the armed conflict, all cultivation throughout the country was destroyed
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The Noah's Ark of Potatoes
Two hundred people are busy with it, they study it, protect it, care for it. We are in the "temple of the potato", i.e. the CIP (www.cipotato.org), the International Potato Center, the leading institution for the research and development of tubers and root crops. Base: Lima, Peru, the motherland of the potato. The CIP is first and foremost a seed bank...
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Alike But Not the Same
Potato and batata - sweet potato - actually have next to nothing in common. One is a tuber, the other a root. One is fourth in the "hit parade" of the world's most popular crops, the other is seventh.
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True Andean
Once upon a time there was a place where every family had its "own" potato: the Andes. Once the very symbol of the agriculture and gastronomic culture of the peoples who inhabited the peaks, today the extraordinary bio-diversity of tubers has been all but lost. However some small farming communities, thanks also to the help of the Slowfood movement (www.slowfood.com) continue their daily struggle "on the field" to advance the cultivation of traditional varieties, among which is the "highest potato in the world".
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Potato Seeds
Many people believe that one plants potatoes by inserting the potato itself into the ground. Wrong: The potato plant too produces seeds. Potatoes were planted even during the time of the Incas; a practice that is back in today.
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