In Peru, the demand for French fries in traditional restaurants, rotisserie chicken ("Pollerias"), and fast-food restaurants is increasing every day. However, supply is covered by imported pre-fried potatoes. During the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 growing seasons, ten potato clones belong to the ...
POTATOES AROUND THE WORLD ETYMOLOGY HEALTH GIVING PROPERTIES OF POTATO JUICE The potato (solanum tuberosum) belongs to the nightshade family and they’re the world’s fourth largest food crop and the one we eat today apparently originated in southern Peru but recent studies suggest that there...
In the context of Bengali households in eastern India, the message was elaborated by providing examples of substitution of types of bread for sandwiches, substitution of potatoes in most of the dishes, substitution of animal proteins with vegetable proteins, and alteration of cooking method. For ...
revealed that only 0.5% of the households used improved seed potatoes (ESCS, 2005). The EIAR recognizes the problem with low adoption rates by ware potato farmers, although the causes have not been fully investigated. For example, the EIAR mentions a shortage of improved seeds and poor supply...
The many descriptor states possible for morphological traits alone of sweetpotato as seen in the IBPGR’S Descriptors List for Sweet Potato (Huaman, 1991) already indicate that there could exist a number of varieties of this crop species in the world. In
of the dry matter to produce new leaves in order to balance the injury generated by the loss of photosynthetically active tissue (Midmore, 1986). The leafminer fly Liriomyza huidobrensis (Blanchard) is the most damaging pest in the coastal valleys of Peru, where potatoes are intensively cult...
In Ethiopia, it is cultivated as the most important root crop mostly for human consumption. The cultivation of sweet potatoes in the southern nations, nationalities and people regional states was a recent phenomenon and its area of production in 2007 was only 188 ha. However, recently the ...
Although a lot of research has been done in the temperate regions on the effect of different storage practices on potatoes, there is limited information on the stor- ability of specific potato varieties particularly under cold storage in tropical environ- ments like Kenya. This study aimed to ...
Therefore, the results reveal subtle differences in the functional characteristics of the starches from the native varieties of potato studied, which can be recommended for food industry applications. Practical Application This study contributes to show several varieties of native potatoes from Cusco and ...
Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is a versatile commodity adapted to a wide range of agro-ecologies and there indications of its potential for further expansion in various ecosystems (Burke 2017; CIP 2017). Potatoes can grow from sea level up to 4,700 meters above sea level, from southern Chil...