India has the highest number of oral cancer cases among countries in South Asia, driven by increased use of smokeless tobacco products like betel quid with tobacco, gutka, khaini and areca nut ...

Smokeless tobacco and areca nut pose significant health risks, including lung, oral, and cardiovascular diseases. Despite being perceived as safer alternatives to smoking, they contain carcinogens ...

Freshly harvested areca nuts in Quang Ngai Province, central Vietnam. Photo: Tran Mai / Tuoi Tre The price of areca nuts in Quang Ngai Province, central Vietnam, has plummeted by around two-thirds in ...

Unripe or ripe nuts are shelled, boiled and sun-dried, then crushed with lime and catechu, a red, astringent extract made from boiled pieces of areca palm wood. The nuts can be bought and eaten in ...

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The price of farm produce skyrocketing at first and then plummeting has been a phenomenon that has occurred in the past and is now happening with areca nuts. Fresh areca nuts have increased in price ...

Diseases also reduced China’s areca nuts production and pushed prices up to a new height of CNY45 (US$6.32) per 0.6 kilogram earlier this month, six times compared to 2016. Areca nut prices in ...

Traders attribute the price increase and the sustained high levels over recent months to China’s shortage of domestic areca nut supply, leading to an uptick in imports from Vietnam. China is a major ...

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Areca nut thefts are on the rise in Shivamogga district as the harvest season begins. Farmers reported multiple incidents of stolen areca nuts. One farmer lost areca nuts worth Rs 1.5 lakhs.

and areca nut (seed of the areca palm) in 2022. The consumption of areca nut (30 per cent) and betel quid with tobacco (28 ...

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