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Thu 06 Jun 2004Warm summer drives fruit sales up by 40%Sales of strawberries have doubled in the past three years, highlighting a 57 per cent increase last year.Figures released yesterday by An Bord Glas, the Irish Horticulture Board, said sales of strawberries were valued at €21.5 million last year.