Nuts

The Italian pumpkin campaign is now in full swing, with its different varieties such as Butternut, Long Violet and Moscata. The national persimmon campaign is proceeding smoothly, with the start of sales of the Vanilla variety from Campania. Hot weather damages some productions, from chestnuts
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Georgian Walnut Enterprise has expanded walnut processing in Georgia. According to the company’s founder, Giorgi Meskhidze, a line for drying nuts and storage facilities was added this year, and a line for packaging nuts in 10-kilogram plastic bags. The products will be sold in this form
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Georgian Walnut Enterprise has expanded walnut processing in Georgia. According to the company’s founder, Giorgi Meskhidze, a line for drying nuts and storage facilities was added this year, and a line for packaging nuts in 10-kilogram plastic bags. The products will be sold in this form
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Georgian Walnut Enterprise has expanded walnut processing in Georgia. According to the company’s founder, Giorgi Meskhidze, a line for drying nuts and storage facilities was added this year, and a line for packaging nuts in 10-kilogram plastic bags. The products will be sold in this form for
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"It was only a matter of time before it arrived in Spain, and it has done so with the help of a company that is spearheading a change in the paradigm". Last week, nutritionist and food technologist Aitor Sánchez presented Unica's new 'healthy vending' proposal. A
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Civi-Italia, the first national interprofessional consortium of nursery associations and national unions of fruit, vegetable and nut growers, representing 90 per cent of the Italian nursery sector, participated for the first time in Fruit Attraction with a collective. The
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CIVI-Italy, the first national interprofessional consortium between nursery associations and national unions of fruit, vegetable and nut growers, representing 90 per cent of the Italian nursery sector, participated for the first time in an international trade fair with a
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"The walnut market (analysis of Areté data) occupies the second place by production and consumption after almonds," reported expert Simona Lamorte (senior market analyst Areté Agrifood) during last week's Giornata della Noce in Forlì. read more

The Italian pumpkin season kicks off with Moscata, Long Violet and the first batches of Butternut. Volumes are growing for persimmons and chestnuts for which an increase in demand is expected. Golden mountain apples are on the market and the Melinda brand product is on its way. Good demand
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The Italian pumpkin season kicks off with Moscata, Long Violet and the first batches of Butternut. Volumes are growing for persimmons and chestnuts for which an increase in demand is expected. Golden mountain apples are on the market and the Melinda brand product is on its way. Good demand
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At Fruit Attraction, the participation of companies in the internationalisation format for fresh Italian produce created by the Edamus consortium is expanding. Focus on rocket, grapes, fennel, pomegranate, butternut squash, Campania pomannurca and valerian read more

At Fruit Attraction, the participation of companies in the internationalisation format for fresh Italian produce created by the Edamus consortium is expanding. Focus on rocket, grapes, fennel, pomegranate, butternut squash, Campania pomannurca and valerian read more

Just recently, a Canadian man ate 50 of the world's hottest chili peppers in a record-breaking 6 minutes and 49.2 seconds. Speed-eater Mike Jack took on the Guinness World Record for the fastest time to eat 50 Carolina reapers, which average 1.64 million Scoville Heat Units. This means they are
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Kelowna Fruit-N-Veggies has reopened the largest corn maze in the Okanagan Valley at the end of August. Junior partner Dominique Coulombe: "Last year we just had the one path, which was about an hour and a half. This year we have the standard path that we added. It's like other corn mazes in the
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The 2023/24 season has begun for many fruit and tree nuts. USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) forecast almond, apple, apricot, grape, pear, sweet cherry, and walnut production up while peach, tart cherry, and cranberry production are expected to decrease. Good spring
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The new persimmon and chestnut campaign has started, onions are still on record prices while Italian lettuces continue to fall. New apple varieties continue to arrive in the markets, most recently the Stark Delicious. For plums, the latest entry is the Angeleno. It is about to
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Terremersee Fondazione per l'Agricoltura F.lli Navarra, in collaboration with Rivulis and FRV, organise the second Open Day at the Experimental Hazelnut Field - Demo Farm Italia of Ferrero HCo, set up a few years ago at the Fondazione per l'Agricoltura F.lli Navarra in Ferrara. Appointment
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Some fruits of African origin could become new crops, given their unexplored potential; some fruits, hitherto only known locally, could supplement unbalanced diets and thus prevent nutritional deficiencies. According to a study by the University of
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The Harmoniz R&D team has been working for years to address the agronomic challenges (yield and pathogen resistance), without ignoring the more explicitly commercial ones: taste, shelf life, freshness, nutritional values and attractive external fruit appearance… read more

Loackerinvests in hazelnuts produced in Tuscany, in Maremma to be precise. read more