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The Desert Potato Research Group

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A small Japanese research group documents a low-water, open-field hydroponic method for growing potatoes in dry regions, alongside a weed-leaf nutrient solution.

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The group says its 2015 potato-growing patent was abandoned in 2024, making the technique freely usable, and proposes it as a long-range response to food insecurity. Its second experiment turns mugwort leaves into irrigation nutrient solution; the site also lists the unresolved problems of making that process stable and scalable.

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