The potato, Peru's great contribution to humanity

(Agraria.pe) In 2023, Peru's potato production reached 5,428,723 tons (5,450,000 tons in 2022), which were planted in 19 regions of our country. There are 711,313 families dedicated to growing potatoes in our country. This was stated by Engineer Celfia Obregón Ramírez, executive director of the Center for Productive Innovation and Technological Transfer of Potatoes and other Andean Crops (CITE Papa) and president of Corporación Aders, who highlighted that Peru is the original country of the tuber, since In our territory the first potato that humans ate was domesticated (in Puno). He detailed that in 2023 the main potato producing region in terms of volume was Huánuco, with 765,771 tons, participating with 14.1% of the total, followed by Ayacucho with 633,189 tons (11.6% of the total), Puno with 596,114 tons, La Libertad with 589,758 tons, Cusco with 434,609 tons. These five regions concentrated 55.4% of the total volume produced in 2023. He added that the regions that produced the ...