Why is it so hard to replicate the ideal conditions are plants like truffle or wasabi? Like I get they can only grow under certain conditions but what about it’s surroundings is so hard to replicate?
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Very few crops are easy to farm in a variety of environments, and many of those crops are only easy to farm due to millennia of human cultivation selecting for hardiness and adaptability, plus a bonus century of scientific research. There are far far more things that grow only in certain regions or only in small quantities, many of which we don’t care about because they don’t taste or smell particularly good.
Humans have never before had much of a need to grow large quantities of truffle or wasabi. The cuisines that use them only need a little bit, and those cuisines used to be highly regional. It’s only recently that people in North America (for example) wanted ready access to fresh versions of them, and compared to how long it used to take to ramp up production of an agricultural product, we’ve made remarkable progress in just a few decades. There are active wasabi farms in the U.S. and projects to grow truffles that have had intermittent success.
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