Kiwifruit
The Fruit & Vegetables Special went from words to deeds. After the workshop, fruit and vegetables took centre stage in all their shapes and colours to entertain delegates at the inevitable light lunch in the foyer of the Fico Eataly World congress centre in Bologna. A way to comment,
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Fruit and vegetable price trends in Italy as at 27 November
2023-11-28 00:00
The new national kiwi harvest is underway, while the Italian persimmon harvest is coming to an end. Radicchio from Veneto is in full campaign. Demand is still low for clementines while it is high for apples, which have run out of stock, and for Sicilian Navelina oranges.
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Zespri creates US$2m fund to boost kiwifruit industry
2023-11-23 16:00
Zespri, the world’s largest kiwifruit marketer, has established a US$2m fund to support industry innovation and partnerships.
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'Green kiwi, the accounts do not add up'
2023-11-23 00:00
The Italian kiwifruit campaign is getting into full swing with the knowledge that there will be no shortage of unknowns, given that we are facing the year with the lowest harvest ever, especially as far as the green-flesh type is concerned. To understand how the
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Zespri launches $2m annual fund to accelerate sustainable innovation
2023-11-22 00:00
New Zealand Kiwifruit brand Zespri has launched $2 million annual fund to accelerate sustainable innovation. Zespri said in a statement on Tuesday that the firm is establishing a new innovation funding initiative, known as ZAG.
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French SunGold volumes on the rise
2023-11-22 00:00
Last year was particularly difficult for European Zespri growers due to extreme weather conditions, but in 2023, “the orchards are bouncing back with very promising volumes expected.” The French and Italian production of SunGold yellow kiwis went up by 25% compared to 2022 (+33% and +22% for
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Zespri™, the world's largest marketer of kiwifruit with over $2.5 billion in revenue (managing around a third of the industry's global volume) is proud to announce the establishment of a new innovation funding initiative, known as the Zespri™ Innovation Fund.
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Key factors driving increased imports of citrus, cashews, and dates
2023-11-21 00:00
Experts from the Institute of Macroeconomic and Regional Studies have conducted a comprehensive analysis of the import trends for citrus fruits (kiwi, mandarins, oranges), cashews, and dates in Uzbekistan from 2018 to 2022.
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Bad kiwi harvest in the Verona area, -30 to -50% in 2023
2023-11-20 00:00
The kiwi harvest in the province of Verona, which began towards the end of October, is now in its final stages. The year is expected to be not uniformly negative, but rather patchy. According to an analysis by the Bussolengo and Pescantina Agricultural Products Foundation, production in the
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Italian fruit exporters spying new Asian markets
2023-11-20 16:00
Italy’s fruit exporters are increasingly looking towards Asian markets, particularly for pears, apples and kiwifruit, according to CSO Italy. The organisation recently organised four inspection visits in the region to facilitate the export of certain Italian fruits. Those inspections took
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Solarelli stars on Food Network and Discovery+
2023-11-17 00:00
Solarelli, the premium line of the Apofruit group, will be the protagonist in the TV debut of 'L'Orto di Carlotta', the cooking show hosted by Carlotta Perego, which aims to discover vegetable cuisine through recipes that are easy to prepare but never give up variety
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Clementines, heat affects quality and the market is still held back
2023-11-17 00:00
There is a lively market for kiwifruit and clementines these days. We interviewed Francesco Gioffrè, sales manager of New Som, a company operating at the Verona wholesale market, to investigate the trends of these two autumn fruits that deserve a
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Solarelli fruit (Apofruit) enters L'Orto di Carlotta
2023-11-16 00:00
Solarelli, the premium line of the Apofruit group, will make its TV debut with 'L'Orto di Carlotta', a cooking show hosted by Carlotta Perego, who wants to discover vegetable cooking without giving up variety and taste. Strawberries, carrots, kiwi, blueberries, apples and on TV for L'Orto di Carlotta
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Kiwi fruit: boom in value in large-scale distribution
2023-11-16 00:00
There is great dynamism in the kiwifruit sector, in particular thanks to the new varieties recently introduced, so much so that household consumption analyses carried out by Agroter's Fruit and Vegetable Monitor also confirm this momentum. In fact, in the period from 2019 to 2022 there was a
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Yellow kiwi and giant blueberry are our new 'divas'
2023-11-15 00:00
Apo Scaligera, a co-operative with more than 20 years of history and 160 member farms, is one of the most important realities of the Veronese fruit and vegetable scene and just a few days ago presented the 'Apo Pro' project to operators (click here to read more).
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"The funds the government is about to allocate are insufficient"
2023-11-14 00:00
After the go-ahead of the Conferenza Stato-Regioni, the Minister for Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Forests Francesco Lollobrigida announced that Masaf is ready to allocate €12 million for the pear and kiwifruit chains to counter the economic consequences caused by weather and natural
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Kiwi, new opportunities in Japan
2023-11-14 00:00
A seminar was held yesterday morning in Tokyo, attended by representatives of the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, as part of the Emilia-Romagna Region's mission to Japan on the occasion of the Week of Italian Cuisine in the World.
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Japan could grant access to Italian kiwifruit
2023-11-14 20:00
Italian kiwifruit exporters could soon gain access to Japan, according to several people who attended an online seminar organised by the Italian embassy in Tokyo on Monday, 13 November.
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Italy accelerates kiwi exports to Japan
2023-11-14 00:00
Italy is pushing phytosanitary agreements for fruit exports, especially to the Far East. A seminar was held in Tokyo, at the Italian Embassy, aimed at boosting the opening of the Japanese market to Italian kiwi fruit. Fruitimprese, Salvi-Unacoa took part,
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Price of imported fruit drops in Vietnam
2023-11-13 00:00
The prices of imported fruits such as kiwis, apples, pomegranates, and pears in Vietnam have significantly decreased, costing only a fraction of their prices two years ago.
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