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Title: Reuters: As other staples soar, potatoes break new ground
Post by: Sunite on April 15, 2008, 03:57:04 AM
As other staples soar, potatoes break new ground
      


LIMA (Reuters) - As wheat and rice prices surge, the humble potato -- long derided as a boring tuber prone to making you fat -- is being rediscovered as a nutritious crop that could cheaply feed an increasingly hungry world.
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