Cooperation with Kazakhstan

Bora Valley is being tested in Kazakhstan fields.

Hak-Tae Lim and Temirjan E. Aitbaev, General Director of the KAZNIIKO. 

Introducing Dr. Lim's Potato to Kyrgyzstan

Hak-Tae Lim with president of Kyrgyzstan (2009)

Introducing 12 new potato varieties to Kyrgyzstan.

Kyrgyzstan children (above picture taken on the way to the potato field)

Potato Recipes Book (95 recipes!)

Low calories diet & prevention of high blood pressure!

 This book was published in 2003 by Hak-Tae Lim.

You may find 95 kinds of various potato dishes that you can make by yourself!

Bora Valley variety

Bora Valley: A Multi-Purpose, Potato Cultivar with Potential for Processing and Functional Product Usage

‘Bora Valley’ is a medium-late maturing potato cultivar with purple skin and flesh color, good processing quality, and excellent storability. It has medium plant height and dark foliage. ‘Bora Valley’ has a profuse flowering habit and light purple flowers. Tubers have smooth skin, round, with medium eye depth, and short to medium dormancy. It has stable yield under wide range of climatic conditions. ‘Bora Valley’ is moderately resistant to late blight, common scab, potato virus Y, and soft rot, but moderately susceptible to black scurf and powdery scab. It is also resistant to physiological disorders, particularly hollow heart and heat necrosis. ‘Bora Valley’ is suitable for pressing fresh juice, fresh table use, steam cooking, and also for chips. The specific gravity of ‘Bora Valley’ is medium (1.077) and similar to ‘Atlantic’ (1.078). ‘Bora Valley’ is capable of yielding 43.78 t/ha under optimum agronomical practices which is 12.72% higher than the control potato cv. ‘Atlantic’. ‘Bora Valley’ tubers contain higher amount of vitamin C (31.2 mg/100 g) and higher content of antioxidant compounds (2977 mg) than  in ‘Atlantic’ (13.3 mg/100 g vitamin C and 823.2 mg). In addition, this cultivar has been shown to express anti-obesity benefits and help reduce total fat and whole body lipids. Thus, ‘Bora Valley” has high yielding potential, good processing quality, and high value for functional food industries. It is well-being functional food to prevent obesity, chronic constipations, gastroentric disorder and hyperlipidemia.

Bora Valley is a gold medal winner of the International Potato Congress and Exhibition held in Moscow in 2007.

Scientific papers of Bora Valley:

1. Inhibitory effects of ethanol extract of purple potato on obesity and hyperlipidemia. Korea j. Oriental Physiology and Pathology 2(3):605-610, 2007

2. Evaluation of potato varieties with high antioxidant activities by measuring phenolic acids in different tuber parts. Hort.Environ.Biotechnol. 47(3):126-131, 2006

3. Growth-inhibiting effects of various valley potato varieties and breeding clones toward human intestinal bacteria. Agric.Chem.Biotechnol. 47(2):97-101, 2004

4.Evaluation of potato varieties on fecal microflora of human volunteers. Food Sci.Biotechnol. 14(3): 420-423, 2005

Patents:

1. The healthy and functional foods for the obesity patience using purple-colored potato (10-0709238-0000/ Korean patent on 2007.4.12

2. Extract having growth-inhibiting and promoting effects of human intestinal bacteria extracted from valley potato cultivars anti-oxidantive compound extracted from Bora Valley, functional foods and cosmetics containing thereof (10-0583192-0000/Korean patent on 2006.5.18)

Who is Dr. Lim?

Lim, Hak-Tae,


Ph.D, Professor, Head of Korean Potato Bank, CEO of MediTronBio Co., Ltd

Background
Born in Gangwon Province, Korea (1961)

Bachelor, Kangwon National University, Korea (1985)

Master's Degree, Slippery Rock University of Pennsilvania, USA (1987)

Founded Teakwondo School in Pensilvania State University, USA (1987~ 1990)

Ph.D , Pennsilvania State University, USA (1990)

Professor at Kangwon National University, Korea (since '91)

Member of the Potato Association of America, the Botanical Society of Korea, and other organizations (since ‘91)

Invited Professor at Uppsala University, Sweden ('94 ~'95)

Winner of the National Photo Artist Contest ('99)

Outstanding Photographer Award of Gangwon Province ('99)

Director of Korea Potato Bank http://www.potatobank.com/  (since 1999)

Cultivated 11 "Valley Potato" varieties (since 2002)

President of Potato Valley Company recently renamed as MediTronBio Co. Ltd (2002)

Member of Technical Committee for Korean Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (2002~ 2003)

Secretary General of the First Gangwon International Pototato Symposium Organizing Commitee (1999~ 2009)

Potato supplier to USA, Canada, France, China, Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan etc (since 2004)

Head of Potato Planning Group, Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (2006 ~ 2008)

President of HighTechAgro Company, Kyrgyzstan (2008 ~ 2009)