How super-spuds could save the planet

Ashley Walmsley
Updated June 14 2018 - 8:15am, first published June 13 2018 - 4:00am
GOOD DIGGING: Some of the biofortified potato lines grown at the International Centre for Potatoes in Lima, Peru. Some have been bred to contain higher amounts of iron and zinc.
GOOD DIGGING: Some of the biofortified potato lines grown at the International Centre for Potatoes in Lima, Peru. Some have been bred to contain higher amounts of iron and zinc.

THE potato is a powerful tool for reducing hunger and malnutrition, according to director general of the International Centre for Potatoes, Dr Barbara Wells.

Ashley Walmsley

Ashley Walmsley

Editor, Good Fruit & Vegetables

Ashley Walmsley is the editor of ACM's only national, fresh produce magazine, Good Fruit & Vegetables, while also covering horticulture stories for the agricultural papers and websites. He also writes the weekly, The Ringer, column in the Qld Country Life.

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