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Japan’s Bumper Potato Crop Delivers Hope After Scorching Summer
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- Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido celebrates its best potato harvest in a decade
- Perfect temperatures and rainfall create ideal growing conditions amid widespread crop stress
- Farmers see renewed hope as golden spuds emerge from soil once threatened by summer heat
Amid a summer of crop failures, a spud-tacular potato harvest in Japan showed that banner years are still in the almanac even as climate uncertainty continues to make farming more challenging.
A potato industry outlet reports that the ideal mixture of temperatures and rainfall means that Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido is virtually the only place in the country where potatoes enjoyed a truly bountiful season.
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