potato history dates back some 8000 years near Lake Titicaca, which is 3 800 meters above sea level (3800 m) in the Andes, South America, on the border of Bolivia and Peru
is estimated that in Peru there more than three thousand varieties of native potatoes or Creole. Much of it can not be planted in other locations outside the Peruvian Andes because they require individuals and agro-climatic conditions in the world also known as Potato, or Potato
There are many legends about origin of the potato
T ext compiled based on a myth in the highest Andahuaylas, Apurimac, Peru .
Published in the book The potato treasure of the Andes from agriculture to culture .
ACCOUNT AN OLD LEGEND ANDINA men quinoa growers for many years dominated the peoples of the highlands and to let them die slowly, they were reducing the food ration for themselves and their children.
already on the verge of death the poor cried to heaven and God gave them a rounded fleshy seeds, which, after planted, became beautiful purple clumps that stained the icy highlands with their flowers.
The rulers did not object to the crop, with the hope of harvest mannose everything to them when the opportunity. Indeed, when plants are yellow and seemed ripe fruit, the oppressors mowed the fields and took everything I tried was a bumper harvest.
Bereaved and dying of hunger, the vanquished called for clemency to the sky again and a voice said from above: Remove dirt and take out the fruits, which have hidden there to fool the bad guys and praise the good.
And so, under the floor were the beautiful potatoes, which were collected and stored in strict confidence. Every morning, men in the highlands added to their diet impoverished one portion of potatoes and was soon restored, swelled and attacked the invaders who, finding himself vanquished, fled, never to return to disturb the peace of the mountains.
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