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IELTS Speaking for Success

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Grow Your Own Potatoes?

Dilizna: Potatoes come from South America. People think they come from Ireland, but they don't. Dilizna: There is a huge crisis at the beginning of the 20th century because you could only get a special kind of fertilizer for soil from South America and isolated places in the world. A German scientist called Fritz Faber came up with the Faber or the Haber process. And after that, they could make fertilizer anywhere in the world and it stopped millions of people from starving to death.

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