Aug
17
2010
Potatoes: Food of the Incas[English]
The potato is a nutritive plant (tuber) which comes from the Pre-Inca cultures and Incas. The Peruvian territory is as much potato species known worldwide.
Here the diversity of native potatoes come from Cajamarca, Ayacucho and Huancayo Cusco course.
There are about 5,000 varieties of potatoes worldwide, in Latin America there are over 4000 varieties, and what fills us with pride and joy is that Peru has 3,000 varieties of native potatoes.
History
The man in antiquity, having been skilled hunter and fisherman, became sedentary having to collect the fruits of the earth. The weather made this new custom result in agriculture, which began the process of domestication of many plants, among which, the potatoe.
