Native potatoes are known for their exquisite, unique taste, their great nutritional properties. And now their also experiencing anincreased demand in local and foreign markets.
France and Venezuela are some of the countries already enthralled by these potatoes;since a few weeks ago, producers from eight communities in Pazos district (north of Huancavelica), began exporting the tuber, but processed into flakes.
Native potatoes of Peru now available as flakes
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