wrong as you can only do that maybe two years in a row Potatoes take tons of nutrients out of the soil.
wtf. so it makes the soil infertile or you just have to plant something else instead?
anyways we'll just have to move on to the next plot of land.
Lack of genetic variation in Irish potatoes contributed to the severity of the Irish potato famine
Although the famine ultimately had many causes, the disaster would likely not have been so terrible had more genetically variable potatoes been planted. Some potatoes would have carried the right genes to make it through the epidemic, and more of the resistant varieties could have been planted in the years following the first epidemic. Later, scientists identified resistance genes in a potato from South America, where farmers have preserved the genetic variation of potatoes by growing many cultivated varieties alongside the potato's wild cousins.
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in ireland as the famine was going on rich business man were still exporting food abroad while their fellow irish man were starving.
well we'll all just have to live off wheat and rice since potato is not realiable
there are a billion rice farmers on earth, mostly asian i think
asian food is great coz their is rice in many dishes.