QualityStocksNewsBreaks – Advanced Container Technologies Inc.’s (ACTX) GrowPods Can Help Address Global Lettuce Shortage
Advanced Container Technologies (OTC: ACTX) announced that GrowPods – transportable modular hydroponic farms - can help reduce the global lettuce shortage. The crisis began in 2020 when, according to Growing Produce, California lettuce cultivators faced hotter-than-average temperatures and crop diseases that led to a shortage of iceberg and romaine lettuce. The conditions bled into 2021, with Mintec indicating that lettuce increased in price 67% from the previous year due to low supplies. “Almost all plants grow faster hydroponically than they do in soil-based farming methods,” the publication reported. “This is because the plant’s light, nutrition and water are all under…