Re: [Pen-l] Re: Potatoes and the Iranian election

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   In 2007, the country's farmers achieved an all-time record harvest of 5.24 million tonnes, with per hectare yields averaging 25 tonnes. The potato is one of Iran's leading agricultural exports, with shipments in 2005 totalling around 166 000 tonnes.

This is when Ahmadinejad was president! He must be good luck for potato farmers.

Cheers k hanly


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--- On Mon, 6/22/09, Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [Pen-l] Re: Potatoes and the Iranian election
> To: "Progressive Economics" <pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Monday, June 22, 2009, 12:51 PM
> ken hanly wrote:
> >By the way I thought most of the world's potatoes come
> from Idaho or Prince Edward Island;) Does Iran actually grow
> a lot of them?<
> 
> >> A British ambassador, Sir John Malcolm, is said to
> have introduced the potato to the royal court of Persia
> during the early 1800s. For a time, the tuber was known as
> "Malcolm's plum", but it's called the "earth apple" by
> today's Iranians.
> 
> 

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