The Farmer Growing 400 Different Kinds of Potatoes
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Consider the humble potato. Many of us take the starchy tuber for granted. But not Julio Hancco Mamani. That’s because deep in the Andes mountains, in the Cusco region of Peru, this “Potato King” is continuing a family legacy by cultivating more than 400 native varieties of the crop. But he’s not just growing them for fun. Mamani’s goal is to preserve the great variety that he has established for future generations and encourage others to love the noble tubers as much as he does.
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"I care and respect these potatoes, even more than my own children"
Truly a wise man
Yasuo The Unforgiven I thought your whole deal was Sake, not potatoes.
Yasuo The Unforgiven that's kind of a double edge isn't it. It shows that he cares for the future enough to preserve the diversity of the potatoes more so than family. It may have been translated wrong as well, maybe the translators could have phrased it better.
Eugene Bak ahahaahha
Truly a typical man. It should be of no surprise to hear any man say that he respects and cares for anything more than his own children.
Go find me a man that actually cares for and respects his children.........ahhh. What a rare find and a gem.
Hahahaah NO
This man is a one-person seed bank! A university should send someone to help him catalog all of the varieties of potato that he grows.
Absolutely! I’m a horticulturist and I find this very interesting.
There is an international organization in Peru , directed by Peru to do that... They have seeds of all the different types of potatos from around the world to protect them in case we would need it in the future.
They are then send them seeds that are best for change it climate
@@fernandolino6493 I will definitely visit that if I ever get around to visiting Peru! 😁
"the one that makes the daughter-in-law cry" I'd like to know the story of how that potato name was created
Ayob Aleko That's a great theory.
David Boucard it's hard to peel off the skin. You'll get frustrated and cry
Have you seen it? Most of the people (not all of them) here are used to peel the potatoes before using it. That's because unless you're buying from a supermarket (and even there) the potatoes are brought right after the harvest in the fields. I mean, they don't get washed. They get picked and throw in a truck to be transported. So sometimes is better to just peel it in case we don't wash it well.
So, yeah, I'll cry too if I had to peel that and I don't even need to be married.
David Boucard hahahaahhaahahahahah
David Boucard Hahahahha
In Peru we have more than 3000 types of potatos and they are organic as well. It's not allowed to use GMO in Peru...agriculture and culture go hand to hand in our country because traditions are very important for us.
Like potatoes for example we have 50 types of corn, mote than 20 types of bananas and so on.
As it should be! I hope nothing happens to your way of life. It makes me sad that here people are disinterested in agriculture and those who are get bullied into submitting to certain regulations.
This is what's annoying. Humans have been genetically modifying plants for thousands of years, since the dawn of our time. Our ancestors have selected the desirable and bigger crops to breed. Everything you eat nowadays is gmo. I don't know about potatoes but the ancestors of corn looks NOTHING like the corn today
EK Uh... No. That's selective breeding -- not genetic modification. There's a major difference.
The peruvian here is naturally breeding out his crops through cultivation. Not altering the DNA sequence in a laboratory.
Different organic corns have become really endangered thanks to monsanto
EK dumb blonde thought she did something LMAO
This is what you can call literally a potato head but in a positive way. 😊
Now, I want to taste all of the 400 varieties of potato.
In terms of biodiversity, there are multiple varieties of potatoes in this film and also other ancient tubers - ulluco, mashua, and oca, which are from entirely different plant families... incredibly nutritious and unique to the Andean Antiplano.
From Peru
Oca is grown in New Zealand a lot though
those types of potatoes are incredibly nutritious, at least compared to american potatoes. ours are just balls of starch
what do you expect for $2 you get like 20 lbs of potatoes.
Chris D you right lol
True
Native Pride!
✊🏾
I would like to taste all types
I want to taste all of them, in all variety of cooking style, fries, wedges, chip .......
It would take years to eat them all.
I've tried like 10 of them and they're so tasty! I like the purple one because it's dry and makes you feel the true flavor :)
Just by themselves they're delicious. Some of them are buttery, others more crumbly, others sweeter. I miss them!
Me too
You can go on for years bro if you lived in the Andes! 🍻
Peru 😍
"My life is potato"
Actually tho
Yes! he worked hard to expand those 400 varieties of potatoes, so THEY BETTER NOT DISAPPEAR
I salute his dedication 😊👏
That is the plea of humanity to his kids, grandkids, great-grandkids, and descendants! Keep em alive AND if possible expand the diversity! Humanity may come to need some of these varieties for its very survival one day!
These Great Big Stories need to be longer!!!! They're so well done 👍
he has a damn near beautiful voice aswell ~
for all those people saying that he cares more for potatoes than his own kids, he doesnt mean literally he is just giving example of his love for potatoes
I used to live in the village, he traded his 5 children into slavery in exchange for new potato seeds.
lets chat he respects the land and the crops that grow from it.
Chris D stfu
Wendy Woodshed agreed
Woah Wendy chill a bit. It's just a joke.
This man deserves Nobel prize for agriculture..
Bastante orgulloso de la variedad de papa existente en el Perú y de mi compatriota, es un buen ejemplo de superación, supo salir adelante con el poco sustento económico que poseía y ahora es conocido, gracias a su proactividad, por gente extranjera.
Si tan solo la mayoría de peruanos fuésemos un poco más empeñosos en lo que hacemos y busquemos siempre salir adelante con lo que tengamos , seriamos un país con muchísimo poder económico, político, industrial, etc.
That man is all I aspire to be.
I'd also eat potatoes every day if I could! They have their own flavor, and they can be prepared in many different ways. :) I think if I had to pick, potatoes are the one food I could eat for the rest of my life.
You can. You can eat nothing but potatoes indefinitely and be just dandy.
I grew up in a rice-centered culture! If I had to live in a place where rice is hard to come by, I don't mind having a potato-centered diet!
Beautiful story. This world would be so much better if there were more people like him.
What a life!I envy the man.
Oh my god, I am Peruvian and in order to understand this great man , I have to read subs... I’m so sorry can’t speak Quechua , so shy ☺️ about ... I have to do it ,proud of my roots ..
Potatoes - Peru's GREATEST cultural export to the world!
I don’t know why but this video just makes me so inexplicably happy.
Great man , working hard to preserve his heritage ( how many of us will live high in the mountains probably without electricity either ) .
Looks like he also grows other root crops like mashua , oca and ulluco 👏👏👍!
I *NEED* to meet this man. I've found my hero.
Tumblr would love this man.
When the dude cares more about food than his children
That's me
I love your dp
You know the guys likes potato's when he says he prefers them to his own kids, nice.
"I eat what I grow and never buy anything". That's amazing. The man is just made from the earth beneath him
That's a curious mix of native and Spanish speaking!
Antonio Gil
He's probably a fully indigenous peruvian. which is very cool.
Antonio Gil I kept thinking "is this Quechua or am I just awful at understanding his dialect of Spanish?"
"fully indigenous peruvian"... "very cool"? WOW racism. That area needs more ethnic diversity.
Chris D how is that racist moron? You're probably one of those idiot leftists that think everything is racist.
Chris D
and it's cool because alot of latin american are mostely mestizos or white. so it's interesting to see someone indigenous to their respective country.
Such an interesting mix of Spanish and what I assume is an ancient Peruvian dialect.
Keith Hepworth yes he speaks in a mix of Quechua and Spanish. His accent when speaking Spanish is very clear. The names of the potatoes are in Quechua. Most of them were known since Inca Empire but are not that popular in markets. Only few ones.
It's not a dialect. It's a very language on its own.
The fact that he’s not speaking Spanish or English and is able to tell his story is amazing
Does anyone know if he was simply code-switching between Quechua and Spanish, or if he's speaking an established creole? Very curious to know.
Nick C...As a Peruvian (from Lima) I could understand some Spanish, I dont know quechua but some words doesnt sound like quechua, maybe he is also using the other great language: Aymara 😱😱
Junior Huacho Guisado Yup. I am Guatemalteco and I understand some Spanish he's speaking. I don't really understand the other language though.
Nick C I kniw he was speaking a mix of Spanish and a native one, it's sounds incredible though
brenda muñoz knew*
I understand a litle of quechua(Peru native language) he mainly speaks quechua, but he mixed it with some spanish words, because some words as "three and a half hours" didint exits in inka's period, so he speaks spanish in that part (altought numbers can be translated to quechua), also quechua as language has missing some words because natives were forced to speak spanish, and Inkas didn't manage writing techniques, nowadays is hard to find people who speak purely quechua, my grand speaks it fluently and it's a pleasure to hear him :).
This is like a Idahonian's dream, or an Irishman!
Or a Slav from eastern Europe!
1:26 wow!!!!
I hope these varieties are preserved in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Fewer and fewer varieties are grown commercially, so these varieties are a real treasure and might go extinct if noone cultivates them any more. They must be safed for future generations.
He doesn't really remember where his love of potatoes comes from, though he does think he got them from his father.Mum always said he was a champion sprinter, who burst into her life "in a flash of greenish-purple light". Even now, looking at his father's old, pointed, red hat, he can't help but smile. Dad was indeed a "wizzard" of potatoes.
Excelente Reportaje, todo un ejemplo para los jóvenes que buscan involucrase en el mundo Rural. Orgullosos del señor Julio
Be careful Monsanto will come and kill you and steal your land . Awesome video though and even better farmer . How he keeps track of all of them ? Great work .
Monsanto: time to modify the gene and patent it. All of them, like all, 400 of them.
😂 😂 😂 You are so right!
John Taylor You are so right man, I hope that the cruel eyes of Monsanto never fall on this Peruvian, Boldy Monsanto who were also former responsible for Agent Orange.. Nothing good can come of them.
Peruvian government banned Monsanto and no way they are fucking overruling the country wide ban now. We are better than ever in agricultural terms without them.
Well said humanity needs to wake up and destroy monsanto
"I respect them more than my own children."
Sounds like my parents.
All I can think of is 400 types of french fries. Man, I'm in starch heaven.
He's so passionate about potatoes. Respect.
He's definitely doing humanity a tremendous service just by doing his thing (loving them potatoes)! 😁
As a potato I'm glad he represented my kind very well.
Oleanna The Fox sorry indigenous people potato’s are to good to be you . Your the gmo white people grocery store bought potato. You are the plain russet potato grown in factory pump with gmo to the point of vomiting it.
He is genius in his field. ❤❤♥
Inca no mezame potatoes. You deep fry them straight into cooking oil without any batter. You don't boil the inca no mezames... once the deep frying is done, you toss them into a stew. You peel and cut that variety of potatoes.
Los incas cosinaban la papa no lo freian san cochaban si
There you go! Potatoes are and always were originally from the andes of South America, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador. Whomever thought potatoes were from Europe are seriously lost.
I finally found him, Little potato man is back
it is so heartwarming and i just respect for this man and his fam
If restaurants can experiment and showcase potato dishes of all these different ones...
Itd have an avenue for more people to appreciate the variety
And help him out
Agri-culture and economics
I am gonna go live him for more than a year and try new potato everyday.
Buddha The monk I'm coming w you. Lol
Sounds like a great plan 😎👍🏽
THE LANGUAGE THAT HE'S SPEAKING IS QUECHUA WITH SOME SPANISH WORDS
People in Ireland should watch this video
Such hard working!!! So much respect
a video i can relate to
The potato king is real.
I love potatoes so v much. My respect to all the farmers around the world.
Now that's real organic....hope some big corporation wont steal your strains and call it their own.
His potato farm should be given UNESCO citation if you ask me!
"I care for the potatoes, even more than my own children"
*SHIT JUST GOT REAL*
Boil'em, mash'em, stick'em in a stew.
Stupid fat hobbit
*the one that makes the daughter-in-law cry*
I would love to trade seeds with this guy! Those varieties are amazing! I'm trying to breed new varieties of my own, but there isn't nearly enough diversity available to start with, so I keep getting just slight variations on the standard types.
We have more than 3500 varieties of potatoes in Peru. You should come one day
These potatoes seems really unique because of their shape, color, and species.For me the most unique is their names.
Those wild potatoes are so damn good. You boil em up, mash em and put a little salsa on em, that's some good eatin.'
wow awesome ... stay REAL... I love new Peru .... you do deserve thanks and rupees and worldwide PPP.
So grateful to be from PERU!
If I ever get around to visiting the Andes, a trip to the average Andean farm would be in my bucketlist! I want my mind to be blown regarding what a potato is since I heard the average Andean farm has more varities of potatoes than the average Western supermarket does! 😁
Soy peruano de la capital soy limeño en provincias asu las comidas es rico elegante hay mas de 3500 clases de papa mas de 50 clases de mais
If only i can put a heart on this video..this man is amazing in his dedication.♡♡♡
I would love to taste his potatoes. Why such a short documentary on this?
Everything grows organically in Peruvian highlands,!
I like how there's a bunch of kids videos on the side there... well for me at least.
alright, nice one UA-cam.
"i care more for these potatoes than my children."
*SAVAGE*
lol was a joke
He sounds like stitch. I love it. ^-^
Potato life. I love it :)))
"I care and respect these potatoes, even more than my own children." I love this story.
Great job man!!! Hats off.
Gere Gettle / Baker Creek needs to get in touch with this guy ASAP.
What a lovely man
"I care for and respect these potatoes, even more than my own children" - big mood
This is heaven for Sasha
I'm Peruvian, and have to say this; "GOTCHA IRELAND, WE WERE THE MAIN POTATO PEOPLE!"
Sorry, had to diss Ireland, I'm even Italian where I can diss them with their bagpipes, but that's another video for another day.
HOLYSHIT
he sounds like the blue cartoon Stitch
This is beautiful
Idaho and Ireland ain't got shit on this dude
Wow amzing man
Montagnard we called aboi lo they grow wild we eat them like snack but we don’t have many varieties like he did I love to taste those potatoes that he grown.
Deliciouso! !
mark my words, I have made it a goal in my life to meet this man and his potatoes in person.
Wow, amazing.
my right eye for trade of these seed 🌎
Latvian paradise
Damn.... too many species, I think I would have to spend a year in Peru to try all the species of potato, corn and whatever else they have. I want a few seeds to grow my own
This is a definition of the "my life is potato" guy.
Its JULIO!
Latvian heaven
i understand why he wouldn't get tired of eating potato everyday
This is my heaven.
Passion!
the native land of potatos
Now we have some potatos like this in chip (crisp) form! Much better than lays or pringles!
Dude cares for potatoes more than his own children!