Friedberg explains potato farmers dedicate 10% of harvest to replanting, requiring substantial fuel, labor, and resources.
“Potato farmers today use about 10% of their harvest to replant leftover potato vegetative biomass back in the ground. That's how they're doing planting.”
Friedberg explains Ohalo's system replaces 2.5 tons per acre of leftover potatoes with less than 10 grams of seed.
“They're farmed vegetatively, so you actually chop up leftover potatoes and put them back in the ground in order to grow potatoes, like Matt Damon does in The Martian.”