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Vegetables

May 12, 2008

Bangladeshis told to "eat potatoes"

“It's not possible to change people's food habit overnight”

Potatoes are not traditionally high on the menu for Bangladesh's 140 million people, but a surge in rice and wheat prices has prompted the government to popularize the humble spud as a substitute food. via Reuters

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