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For the third consecutive week, the total volume of avocados in the United States is down, while prices are up for virtually all sizes.

The price of Vietnamese areca nuts exported to the billion-people market skyrocketed when a large output of areca nuts grown on Hainan Island was damaged by a storm. As soon as the supply in China recovered, the price of areca nuts quickly plummeted.

According to People's Daily, at a company's blueberry planting base in Huaining County, Anhui Province, east China, intelligent temperature control, automated irrigation system and real-time soil pH monitoring have replaced conventional cultivation methods. Blueberries are grown in pots inside smart greenhouses, where technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and big data enable precise and intelligent environmental control. According to Liu Jinlong, general manager of the company: “A person with a smartphone can now manage blueberry fields tens of mu (one mu equals 0.07 hectares) in size. Thanks to this technology-driven approach, greenhouse blueberries can reach the market in March, two months earlier than those planted outdoors, while achieving a yield twice the amount of blueberries planted outdoors.”