To Help Grow Potatoes In
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The Tropics
ANEW era may be dawning for dwel lers in the tropics who formerly had At t station of the Imperial Bureau (says the “Monthly Science News”), experiments are being carried out to find the most suitable varieties of potato for the tropics.
The substitution of the potato for other root and cereal crops in such places as India, would improve the standard of living of the indigenous peoples. A tropi cal potato would, as well, help along the food problems of many Europeans in tropical countries who have now to make do with local substitutes, such as yams and taros.
Expeditions are being sent to the original home of the potato—Central and South America—to collect indigenous potato varieties.
These research men might with advan tage study conditions in Sigatoka (Fiji) and the central plateau in New Guinea, where European potatoes do very well.