Perù: la diversità delle patate autoctone è un pilastro della sicurezza alimentare andina e un punto di riferimento per l'esportazione.
Peru guards more than 3,000 native potato varieties in the crop's center of origin — a genetic treasury for mountain food security and premium gastronomy.
Peru, the potato’s center of origin, continues to anchor global diversity with more than 3,000 native varieties, according to the Ministry of Agriculture (MIDAGRI), cultivated across Andean altitudes — a living gene bank that serves both local food security and emerging premium markets.
Some native varieties carry traits breeders increasingly need, such as frost tolerance for high-altitude fields and higher antioxidant content than standard commercial types.
Native potatoes occupy a different economy from commercial varieties: gastronomic demand from Peru’s celebrated restaurant scene pulls colorful native tubers into premium channels.
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Conservation programs linking in-situ farmer cultivation with the International Potato Center’s gene bank ensure diversity survives both in cold storage and in farmers’ fields where it continues evolving.
More than 700,000 small farmers grow potatoes in Peru, which produced 6.58 million tonnes on 337,665 hectares in 2024, according to MIDAGRI.
Fonti: Caretas, 30 May 2026 (MIDAGRI); ProActivo, 30 May 2025 (MIDAGRI)
