Other "green lifestyle" businesses, such as those selling organic vegetable boxes, have also sprung up in Shanghai.

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Soldiers are taking on the civilian middlemen who control the vegetable trade by selling cheap produce, some of it from military farms.

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Early this year Cargill also began selling one of the first polyols made from vegetable oil.

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The town's Thursday fruit and vegetable market is one of the few occasions when Serbs and Albanians mix freely, with mainly Albanian vendors selling to mainly Serb shoppers.

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