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Farmer's field now tourist site thanks to big potatoes
(China Daily)
Updated: 2008-11-04 09:01

A farmer's fields recently became a tourist attraction after he dug 11 huge sweet potatoes out of his soil in Shixing county, Guangdong province.

The biggest, regarded as "the king of sweet potatoes", weighed more than 15 kg and was 40 cm in length with a diameter of 30 cm.

The smallest sweet potato also weighed more than 10 kilograms.

Zhang, who has been growing sweet potatoes for several decades, said he had never before found such huge specimens.

Experts say it is rare to see such huge sweet potatoes.

Many curious neighbors, friends and relatives are now visiting daily to see the big finds.

(www.chinanews.com.cn)