Watering by smartphone, flowering by LED: the wall that northern dragon fruit cannot cross even at a fourfold unit price
An agricultural cooperative in Lap Thach district, Phu Tho province, has broken through the off-season that was a weakness of the north, using automatic irrigation and LED lighting. While achieving 28,000 dong per kg, about four times the southern price, it cannot assemble a monthly export lot of 50 tonnes; we unpack what Japanese fruit-and-vegetable sourcing should learn from this reality.
