The Sicilian 'retato' melon campaign has begun: since the Easter weekend, Barbera International, a company from Adrano, Catania, specialising in the production and marketing of the best Sicilian fruit, has been supplying the product to the large-scale retail trade. read more

"Over the past few years, our company has experienced significant, double-digit growth (+70%), consolidated mostly as a result of additional buyers from the retail sector. At the moment, we sell our strawberries in twenty supermarket chains, including Italian and European ones, but we have
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In Europe, local sweet potato production in Spain and Portugal is nearly over. Currently, the available products come almost exclusively from the United States. "Certainly, in Southern Europe, there's more demand for the US product. This season, that crop is excellent, size-wise, and we're
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Researchers at Hebrew University, Israel have succeeded in developing tomato varieties capable of producing a high yield even in extreme drought conditions. The study was published in the journal PNAS. read more

Lineage Logistics a prominent temperature-controlled industrial REIT and integrated solutions providers worldwide, has celebrated the grand opening of its newest facility in Port Wentworth, Georgia. Savannah Fresh-Port Wentworth is strategically located near the Port of Savannah, the largest
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AINIA has presented a mobile unit that allows farmers to process IV range fruits and vegetables on the field where they're grown and obtain ready-to-eat products with greater added value. read more

Almeria's melon and watermelon campaign has already started with the harvest of the earliest varieties. However, at the moment, volumes are still limited. Producers expect a higher production than in the previous season and, at the moment, the fruits' quality is good. read more

The agronomic season that has just started is looking particularly complicated when it comes to irrigation: some areas in Italy are already experiencing water shortages and the prospects are worrying.  read more

The global sweet potato market is seeing mixed results, with some countries experiencing growth while others face challenges. In the Netherlands, the sweet potato season is going well with a trouble-free harvest from North Carolina, while in Germany, inflation is putting pressure on sales.
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The European Parliament's first approval of the reform of PDO and PGI geographical indications arrived yesterday. In particular, the Agriculture Commission of the European Parliament approved the negotiating mandate for the reform. read more

In the heart of the pastoral region of northern Israel lies a new agricultural initiative that attempts to transform Herbal Farming by bringing it one step closer to the future, a fully automated basil-growing greenhouse with limited human intervention that extends the shelf life up to 20 days.
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“The pear sector still has prospects for the future although, at the moment, demand is higher abroad than in Italy. Of course we need to change mentality in our approach to new orchards," reports Giovanni Zanzi, co-owner of Vivai F.lli Zanzi in Ferrara, one among the leading businesses in the
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Increasingly extreme weather events and increasingly aggressive diseases are only bringing attention back to a subject that is very dear to producers, that of TEAs. Assisted Evolution Techniques, in particular cisgenesis and genome editing, are currently still relegated in Italy
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As part of its commitment to bring forward technological solutions that reduce food loss and promote sustainable agriculture, AgroFresh Solutions, Inc., a post-harvest freshness solutions provider, announced a partnership with Strella, a startup and developer of proprietary sensor technology.
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In the south, stone fruit and kiwifruit are running and we are in the bud swelling phase (Click to learn more). In Calabria, fruit thinning is already being implemented for some early varieties. At IFN he explains the treatments that are being carried out, Antonio Nacca, head of
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There is optimism among operators in the food industry for the long spring weekends in late April and early May. In the coming weeks, an increase in consumption and the volume of product offered on the market is expected, especially in the catering industry. The
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"Although the weather of the past year is forcing us to remain realistic and wait for the end of the season to make an assessment, we could say that the citrus fruit campaign has been one to be remembered with good prices, yet with reduced volumes because of an unusual and unstable weather,"
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The potato is the world's third most important food crop in terms of human consumption, after rice and wheat. However, global potato production is threatened by late blight, one of the most devastating potato diseases, which costs the world €3 billion a year to
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At the end of last week, Poland quite unexpectedly introduced a temporary ban on the imports and transit of Ukrainian agricultural products, and Hungary and Slovakia joined it a few days later. Similar measures are also being discussed in Romania and Bulgaria. Naturally, it was the
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