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The Peruvian Potato
Peru has the greatest variety of potato in the world . There
are approximately 300 varieties well-registered in the International Center4 of Potato
(ICP). Eventhough China is the main potato producer in the world, our delicious yellow
potato has a greater international demand day after day. This pótato has been sold abroad
frozen and pre-cooked.
 The scientists of the International Center of Potato have already
begun to produce a sexual potato seed whose objective is to produce potatoes with high
standards of resistance to diseases and plagues. Another great advantage about potato
seeds is that the potato farmers usually sow a potato hectare using twuo tons of
conventional seeds (with an apprioximate cost of $ 1300 ) and now the only need 50 grammes
of sexual seeds ,whose cost is $100 to sow the same area. This lowers considerably the
price of the costs of sowing .
The most eaten potatoes in Peru are :The yellow potato which is quite sandy ,
ideal for smashed potatoes . This variety has at the same time sub classifications :
Tumbay,Limeña, and Huaralina.The Huayro potato comes from Tarma but its crop is spreading
all over the peruvian highlands. The Tomasa potato is less sandy than the yellow one and
it is a very good complement for barbacues , fried food or pachamancas.The Mariva potato
is the one used to prepare the crispy french fries.The black potato is the one with white
flesh and black peel.
 The potato has been and still is the essential nourriture for
peruvians. In the Inca’s time they already prepared Locro dish made with fresh and
dehydrated potatoeswhose name in quechua is Chuño. It was served with Lama dried meat (
charqui).We obtain Chuñospeading the potatoes over a flat surface so that the cold at
night and then the heat of the day dehydrate them so that they became starch.
Among the most known peruvian dishes whose main ingredient is potato, we have
the famous Causa ( smashed yellow potato mixed with oil,chili and lemon); papa a la
huancayna, ocopa arequipeña, papa rellena and ajiaco de papas.
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