Potato farming in Lebanon

""After years of recurrent losses, potato farming, once known as the crop of the poor, is in continuous decline. The famous crop of the Beqaa has now become monopolized by a few large farmers who plant hundreds of dunums and who can afford to buy tons of expensive seed potatoes and agrochemicals and who can also ensure the marketing and the storage and other production costs that have left the potato growers bleeding."" (thanks Paul)