Restores ancient potato varieties

Farmers of Aymara village, located in the Peruvian Andes, 3950 meters above sea level, successfully harvested many varieties of potatoes.

This is part of the scientific effort to preserve many native and native types of potatoes. These ancient potato varieties have many unique names in the ancient Quechua language such as " The most beautiful black woman", "Like a white deer", "Red ball", "Old bone", "Make the bride cry ".

They are yellow, burgundy, pink, yellow spots, pink spots. They come in all shapes from round to twisted, with hooks at the end like a cane or twisted like a spinning crop.

The village of Aymara is a suitable natural location for agronomists to produce seed potatoes for a gene bank with the task of preserving the diversity of potatoes. Cold smuggled gas on high to protect potato crops against parasites often rapes potato farms on low land.

René Gomez, an expert at the CIP International Potato Center, said: "We are harvesting more than 2,000 types of potatoes that are not sick to bring them back to the elevated communities in the Andes."

CIP has discovered dozens of wild potato varieties and saved hundreds of varieties of potatoes grown after they were removed by farmers.

Potatoes of all shapes and colors (Photo: AP)