The agriculture minister said Bong County grows most of the country's cassava, eddoes, plantains, bananas and potatoes.

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He told BBC News that while bananas and plantains also have limiting factors, they may be a good substitute for potatoes in certain locations.

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The chimps' diet consists of bananas, potato leaves, sweet potatoes, plantains, coconuts, palm nuts and other fruits and vegetables, in addition to rice balls fortified with powdered milk.

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While from the ends of their elegant stalks pineapples nodded encouragingly, sweet potatoes and yams peeped from the earth, and great hands of bananas reached down to them.

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