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Record 1 2016-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Food Industries
  • Vegetable Crop Production
  • Botany
Universal entry(ies)
OBS

Grown in the High Andes the tubers are cultivated like potatoes.

OBS

The fourth most important root crop - after the potato, oca, and ulluco. Its tubers can be found in almost any rural Andean market.

OBS

The spelling of some terms are written in the native's language depending on the regions. For example in Colombia isaño and isañu are used synonymously.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie de l'alimentation
  • Production légumière
  • Botanique
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
OBS

Tubercule comestible ayant les mêmes propriétés que la pomme de terre et cultivé dans les Andes.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Industria alimentaria
  • Producción hortícola
  • Botánica
Entrada(s) universal(es)
CONT

Los tubérculos andinos (oca, olluco y mashua), son otras de las tantas especies valiosas que nos heredaron nuestros antepasados. Constituyen la base alimenticia del poblador andino y sustituyen en muchos casos a la papa.

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