INCA TRAIL BRINGS IN POTATO TOURISTS

摘要

POTATO cropping would not normally be singled out as a target for eco-tourism but the people of the Andes near Cusco in Peru could be about to capitalise on a long and colourful association with wild and cultivated potato species which goes back at least 7,000 years. Local farmers and scientists from the International Potato Center (CIP) in Lima have begun a collaboration which aims to improve the quality of seed stocks while also bringing in tourist dollars to an area which is otherwise heavily reliant on subsistence agriculture.