Anticipation is high for the fourth edition of Marca Fresh of which Fresh Point Magazine is media partner. The exclusive format, centred on sustainable innovation in the fruit and vegetable sector, will take place as part of Marca by BolognaFiere, the only trade fair in Italy for the mdd, scheduled to be held at the exhibition centre
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Mazzoni's citrus fruit campaign, which includes clementines, blond oranges and lemons, produced in the most suitable lands of Calabria, is in full swing. From the end of January, late clementines will cover the market until the beginning of March. "The late clementines segment is a novelty for
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Vip, the Association of Fruit and Vegetable Cooperatives in the Vinschgau Valley, is again this year foregoing Christmas presents for its employees, customers and suppliers in favour of a socially responsible choice. Vip joins the project Mobility in South Tyrol, a project that has enabled
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At last, a space dedicated to innovations to develop a more qualitative, healthy, functional, nutraceutical food, for years one of the biggest trends in the agri-food industry, with great potential also in the fruit and vegetable sector. It will probably be one of the most eagerly awaited novelties of
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With 2024, the Spanish campaign of the premium Tango Fruit mandarin starts again, which is joined for the second consecutive year by the production and distribution of the product of Italian origin. The exclusive collaboration between Spreafico Francesco & F.lli Spa and the Tango Fruit brand of Eurosemillas
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Ettore Prandini has been confirmed as national president of Coldiretti, the leading organisation of agricultural entrepreneurs at national and European level. He was unanimously elected by the Assembly of delegates from all regions, representing more than 1.5 million
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Christmas is approaching and, as we have said on several occasions, spectacular displays in the various departments become an invitation and an incentive to purchase. Fruit and vegetables is no exception, which often becomes a natural stage for targeted displays, marketing actions and in some cases cross
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We close the 2023 freshtalks season with an episode on the Gulf of Taranto Igp clementines, a sector in which La Grande Bellezza Italiana has invested since the beginning of its story, now in its fifth year, talking to Francesco Casulli, president of the cooperative
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With the arrival of Tarocco there is less interest in Navelina oranges, although the pigmented product is still lagging behind due to the warmer weather. Interest and harvested quantities for the Gold variety of kiwifruit, which is in full swing, are increasing. Growing demand
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Africa is rich in fruit and vegetables. Carrying on the work of popularisation is Victoire Gouloubi, an award-winning Italo-Congolese chef and the first black female executive chef in our country. After studying in Africa, she arrived in Veneto 22 years ago, training with star chefs and
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Cosmetic products reusing food waste from Vignola cherries. This is the idea behind Oltree, a non-profit company founded in 2022 in Spilamberto, near Modena, by Barbara Vecchi, a past in hi-tech, founder of Hopenly, an innovative pmi that has dealt with data
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Original colour schemes and stylised figures: Christmas colours and dresses the packaging of Melinda apples with specific graphics, with their vivid and natural colours, from yellow to deep red, to convey the festive atmosphere to the public. With Melinda apples at Christmas not only panettone and
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Macfrut runs and drives the balance sheet of Cesena Fiera for the 40th consecutive year in the black. The shareholders' meeting gives the go-ahead to the 2023 preliminary balance and the presentation of the 2024 budget of the company. The President of Cesena Fiera, Renzo Piraccini, presented the data during
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It seemed to be done with the green light from the European Parliament to lift the ban on plastic packaging under 1.5 kg, but in the Council of Environment Ministers meeting today, 18 December, the uncompromising line on reusing containers and penalising
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We will have to wait until Epiphany to be able to taste the Extra Red Barberas. The highly pigmented oranges will be available indicatively from 6 January to 15 April. "If 2023 was the launch year, 2024 wants to be the consecration year," says
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Decisive hours for the EU regulation on packaging and packaging waste: the technical meeting of the EU Council (Coreper) is scheduled for today, and a certain scepticism is seeping in. In the run-up to the political meeting of the Environment Council on 18 December, when an
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The Joint Commission of the Potato Exchange has approved the second advance payment to be made to producers who have contributed their production to the deposit account. On the basis of the potato price set at the meeting of 22 September 2023 at EUR 0.52/kg, the members of the Commission have
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For a little over a decade, small fruits have carved out an important position in national fruit production. As we can see from the raspberry production graph, the quantities of the national product have grown by about 50% in ten years. Similar and
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'This is not a matter of urgency but of emergency'. The Consortium for the Protection of the Emilia-Romagna Pear, the UnaPerae Consortium and the Pear Interprofessional Organisation are again addressing the Minister of Agriculture to reiterate the need for a more massive and
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Decisive hours for the EU regulation on packaging and packaging waste: the technical meeting of the EU Council (Coreper) is scheduled for today, and a certain scepticism is seeping in. In the run-up to the political meeting of the Environment Council on 18 December, when an
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