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Portland Observer, June 22, 1963 Page 7 Potato is hot the world over Mashed into a side dish or fried into fast food, (he potato is easy tc underestimate. But potatoes are actually th< world's bread and butter, act or din* to the International Potato C ent« in Lim a, Peru. Potatoes yield mort nutritious food more quickly on lev land and in harsher climates thar any other major food crop. cultivate all eight species, embracing as many as 3,000 o f the 5,000 or more potato varieties. Rhoades describes the varieties " T h e colors o f the rainbow and more, many looked like miniature pineapples, some like coral snakes, and otheri like bright red cherries or purple gumdrops." When Europe's potato crops fell victim to late blight in the mid-19th century, a million people died in Ireland, where potatoes were the chief food. Now scientists believe that genetic engineering o f potatoes holds promise for a 21st-century solution to the world food crisis. The International Potato Center's goal is to make the potato available and inexpensive to everyone by the year 2000 They are crossing wild and native varieties with modern Pomatowa and topatoaa In West Germany, genetic engi neers have fused two botanical cous ins. the potato and tomato, to pro duce pomatoes and topatoes. These hybrids, they hope, will someday produce food above and below ground, and share their best quali ties. ET7 1r * ä In Asia and South America scien tists are pioneering the commercial growing o f p o ta to « by “ true seed," the tiny seeds produced in the potato plant's berry. By this method p o ta to « can be grown much like grains Only a 10O-pound sack o f seed is needed to sow 1,000 a c r« , much less than the 1.000 tons o f potato tubers needed to seed the same amount o f land conventionally. The potato remains a rich man's food in many poor nations. A com mon expression in the Dominican Republic, " « t a r en las papas'* (to be in the p o ta to « ), means a person is successful enough to affo rd more than a banana diet. And in the P h ilip p in « , housewiv« might top o ff their shopping carts with a few p o ta to « for the status they imply. high-yielding ones, attempting to manipulate the potato's built-in thermostat to stretch its natural adaptability to both cold highlands and steaming tropics. The wild and native varieties con tain genes resistant to many o f the 265 diseases and pests known to plague the potato. The ce n t« breeds for this genetic material and distrib utes seed for worldwide testing, gen erally in developing countries. It your cakat tend to fail < lot it could tie becauM the you u«e ere too big. Medium to large egg« ere best. Extra large may be too much for your recipe •98« SCISSORS HAIRDESIGN STUDIO Progressive hair design tor women and men» Haircutting» Perms« Curts 2733 N.E. B roadw ay • 288-5438 Northw est Products Front T he Im p e ria l V a lley Sa le! Cantaloupes Sweet. Ripe & Fresh a <’ ________ oez Mw.« GaagtapXKi An Irish lad carries recently harvested potatoes hom e for his fam ily's dinner. Valued w o rld wide for nutrition and versatility, spuds grow in m ore countries than any crop except corn. This amazing vegetable is a South American native brought back to Europe from Peru by 16th-century conquistadors. Its own world con quest now complete, King Potato grows in more countries than any crop except corn. Robert E. Rhoades o f the Inter national Potato Center writes in the May issue of N ational Geographic: “ The average annual crop (291 million tons) could cover a four- lane superhighway circling the world six times.’ * 25 ^rWSUPER \ \SAVER Produced in 130 o f the world’s 167 independent countries, one year's crop is worth $106 billion at consumer prices, Rhoades reports. Potatoes are fourth, after wheat, corn, and rice, in world production, but because o f multiple harvests, yield the most protein and food energy per acre. They are remarkably adaptable; potatoes grow from below sea level behind Dutch dikes to almost 14,000 feet up in the chilly Andes and Himalayas, from the Arctic Circle to the Strait o f Magellan, and in the scorching deserts of Australia and Africa. Brimming with vitamin C , many of the B vitamins, and iron, the potato is so nutritious that a man in Scandinavia lived healthily for 300 days on only spuds dressed with a bit o f margarine. And eating a potato without rich toppings is no more fattening than eating a pear — the potato is 99.9 percent fat free, W ithout potatoes, meat produc tion would slump and meat prices skyrocket; nearly half the w orld’s crop is fed to livestock. Potatoes are also distilled into vodka and aquavit, processed into starch, paste, and dye, and con verted to fuel. Researchers have shown that one acre o f potatoes in one year's time can yield 1,200 gal lons o f ethyl alcohol, or potato gasohol, for cars. Rhoades notes that tomatoes, tobacco, and eggplants are related to the potato, but the sweet potato is not — even though its Indian name, batata, became the English word potato. Thouaanda of variatlaa The fam iliar brown oval spud be longs to the species Solanum tubero sum, one of eight cultivated through out the world. Most o f the world's crop and all potatoes grown in the United States belong to this species. 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