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Food | 6 September, 2009 [ 12:40 ]

Peru: 370 potato varieties catalogued in 7 Huanuco provinces


LivinginPeru.com
Isabel Guerra

According to the journalist and blogger from Huánuco, Orlando Bravo, a total of 370 native potato varieties grown in seven provinces of this Andean region have been catalogued by the researcher and professor at the Universidad Nacional Agraria (Agrarian National University), Rolando Egúsquiza.

These varieties are the result of a selection of 1470 samples of native potatoes collected in the provinces of Dos de Mayo, Huamalies, Lauricocha, Yarowilca, Ambo, Huanuco and Pachitea.

Local farmers have helped significantly in this study,  reports Bravo in Reporte Al Día.

Through their research, begun in 1995, Egúsquiza has defined the characteristics of each variety, detailing their marks and also establishing their DNA, so allowing their nutritional value to be maximized.

Egusquiza remarked that this work will become "a genetic inventory of this department," and will help better explain its gastronomic and tourist potential.

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