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With 'electro-agriculture,' plants can produce food in the dark and with 94% less land, bioengineers say

Now this would be a game changer and complete shift of how we think about food production. Could this lead to less global food shortages?  Could we grow food in places that, until now, we couldn't? 

"I think that we need to move agriculture into the next phase of technology and producing it in a controlled way that is decoupled from nature has to be the next step."

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