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' One South American grass domesticated as a food grain was Bromus mango. Not a true Andean plant, it comes from Chiloe Island and the adjacent Chilean coast.
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Peruvian farmers produced about 1,200 tons of kiwicha grain in 1988, most destined for a children's breakfast program in the Cuzco schools. Now, in Peru's village markets and city supermarkets, the grain can be found in both raw and processed forms, ranging from breakfast foods to
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baby foods. Newspapers and government pronouncements have created a widespread awareness of the grain's nutritional value.
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By simultaneously tackling market requirements and farmers' requirements, the researchers have stimulated modern interest in a truly lost crop of the Incas and laid the foundation for its long and lasting future.
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