Apricots
Agribologna, new media campaign kicks off
2023-06-23 00:00
The campaign celebrates the value of the producer partner as a true specialist of the land and the special character of the product, which fully represents the excellence and qualities of the land. The protagonists of the launch in the coming days include the Fabbri family with apricots
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'Young people, come and do this job'
2023-06-21 00:00
When a strong passion for agriculture runs in the family since childhood, it can only be passed on. This was the case for Apulia'sAngela Cascavilla, who has a degree in motor sciences but has always dedicated herself to her father's business, which bears their
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Banks of mushrooms: The chanterelle season begins again
2023-06-20 00:00
The chanterelle, also known as Girolle, Hanenkam and Cantharel, is a wild mushroom and is hand-picked in the forests of Europe. It has a light and fresh apricot aroma with a slightly spicy and peppery taste. With banks mushrooms lie the first chanterelles
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Spain, apricot production falls by 65% by 2022
2023-06-20 00:00
The Castilla-La Mancha cooperative tried to estimate the 2023 apricot harvest in the region and, in consultation with other structures in the area, it emerged that production will fall by 65% compared to the previous year. The spokesman for the stone fruit sector, José Carlos Blázquez,
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"Royal made Pluot® and Metis® available to consumers and continues to innovate to set new trends".
2023-06-20 00:00
Nearly two decades ago, the Sevillian company culminated with a real and differentiating alternative in the stone fruit segment through the incorporation of its Pluot® and Metis® interspecifics, plums hybridised with apricot, which resulted in a real and
real alternative for the stone fruit segment.
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Apricot production in Castilla-La Mancha will fall by 65%
2023-06-20 00:00
After consulting with the cooperatives in the sector, Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias Castilla-La Mancha has estimated that the production of apricots in the region in 2023 would decrease by 65% over the previous year.
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Fruit and vegetable price trends in Italy as at 19 June
2023-06-20 00:00
Puglia's green florid fig campaign kicks off. Italian apricot production gets underway. There is a high trend for melons, especially row melons, while demand for watermelons is slow to start. Production of Italian cherries is very low. Trentino mountain strawberries
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49 tons of apricots and 29 tons of Red Label peaches and nectarines: these were the volumes sold last year, which is quite an achievement. In 2020, the sales of apricots and peaches/nectarines were just under 9 and 4.5 tons, respectively. These results are "very encouraging", according to
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Last week, the Federation of French Fruit Producers (FNPF) and the producers of Peaches and Apricots of France sent a letter to the main French retailers, urging them to switch from the Spanish to the French origin as soon as possible.
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Cherries from Piedmont packaged as chocolates for original gifts
2023-06-16 00:00
The new cherry 'gift box' could not but come from the home of chocolates (Alba, in the Cuneo province). It was Lorenzo Brigante, 26, who came up with the idea. He is the owner of Cascina Malcotti which covers almost 6 hectares of hazelnut groves, cherry orchards and apricot orchards.
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'First sugar apricots arrived from Turkey'
2023-06-15 00:00
Spanish apricots dominated and were most likely flanked by Italians. Unloadings from France complemented. From Turkey came, on the one hand Matador; on the other hand the first sugar apricots also arrived, which cost € 25 per 10 kg in Hamburg and € 4 per kg in Berlin. Overall, availability
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Alanar prepares for start of Turkish cherry season
2023-06-14 19:00
Having started the year with weather problems that proved disastrous for Turkish apricots, producer-exporter Alanar is grateful that its cherries appear to be untouched by inclement conditions, at least for now.
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Old variety makes good stock?
2023-06-14 00:00
You will forgive me for the provocative use of one of the most popular proverbs in Italy, but the 'Hamletic' doubt arose during one of our surveys in the wholesale markets. In fact, as I was browsing through the producers' crates, I was struck by a small
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Fruit and vegetable price trends in Italy as at 12 June
2023-06-13 00:00
High prices and sub-optimal quality due to rainfall do not favour the cherry campaign: Vignola's branded product has started. Demand for watermelon has not yet taken off, while demand for melons remains good with the start of production in Northern Italy.
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Ingrosso, summer begins to feel
2023-06-09 00:00
"Sales of summer produce are going very well and we cannot complain, but around the corner there is always the bad weather nightmare that threatens to compromise the production of peaches, after cherries and apricots". Speaking isPalmino Rotundo, of the distribution company
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Even though the flowering of the early stone fruit trees in Lleida was late, the harvest started about a week earlier thanks to the continuous high temperatures in spring, which were accompanied by beneficial rains. The stone fruit season is advancing with strong demand, especially for apricots,
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Large amount of Greek apricots damaged by weather conditions
2023-06-09 00:00
It’s been rough going in terms of the weather for Greek apricot growers. According to Nick Nafpliotis, company director of fresh produce exporter Greek & Fresh, a large percentage of the apricot crop in the Northern part of Greece was damaged.
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Berries introduced on top of stone fruit
2023-06-09 00:00
For "Domenico Laghi", a historic trading business based in Forlì, the apricot, peach and nectarine campaign has started off well with good demand from both Italy and abroad. "Demand is lively but quantities are not very high, so there is no particular problem when it comes to selling and prices
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Leni's thinks summer with new cool and tasty drinks
2023-06-08 00:00
Trentino-Alto Adige apples combined with yellow kiwi from Piedmont and Sicilian bergamot, with apricots from Emilia-Romagna, or even with red-fleshed apples and cherries: healthy, practical and tasty mixes that are ideal for the approaching heat, when the risk is to become dehydrated and lose
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Fruit and vegetable price trends in Italy as at 5 June
2023-06-06 00:00
Italian apricots are on the market, with a high price range due to lower product availability, also due to the flooding in Emilia-Romagna. Quality and demand are pushing up the prices of melons. For watermelons and aubergines, the product is not only Sicilian but
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