ANF reports via El Deber: Bolivia with $52.5 million dollars trade deficit in 10 years of potato production During 2016, 91% of the imported volume of potatoes and their derivatives came from Peru. The purchases were mostly fresh potatoes. Including potatoes for sowing, fresh, fried, dehydrated, starch and potato flour, between 2010 and 2016, the…
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While bonuses are thrown away… Bolivian potato producers face bankruptcy!
ERBOL reports in La Prensa: BANKRUPT POTATO PRODUCERS Santa Cruz. The President of the Federation of vegetable and fruit growers (Fedehfrut), Nue Moron, reported yesterday [11/17/13] that Santa Cruz’s Potato farmers went bankrupt due to the low cost of the tuber in the market and by three frosts that ruined crops. He said that “the…
Bolivian chuno and tunta [which are processed potato] have interesting properties against diabetes and overweight!
Tatiana Sanabria reports for Pagina Siete: Chuño and tunta may decrease the level of glucose in the blood Science: a group of Bolivian researchers analyzed resistant starch in 52 samples of potato, chuño [sometimes de ñ does not show, is the n with the – on top, Spanish alphabet] and tunta in two communities of…
Bolivians consume 92 kilos of potatoes and one of quinoa, yearly
It is no secret that potatoes appear in most our traditional meals. Like the Dutch, Bolivians prefer potatoes and we should eat more cereals like quinoa… From Pagina Siete: There were 800 maps with agricultural information Bolivians consumed a year 92 kilos of potatoes and one of quinoa FOOD according to the report, the high…
Bolivian potato or potatoe?
It doesn’t matter how you say it, it matters Bolivia has plenty of it!!! Kudos to the National Institute for Agriculture and Forestry Innovation (INIAF), and to those Cochabamba producers who for the first time, planted 1,555 potato varieties that exist in Bolivia. To preserve and protect the genetic patrimony of Bolivian tubercles. Around 60 people, among small producers, INIAF technicians and local authorities,…
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