Salads from vertical farming are entering haute cuisine menus, used by top chefs who are important endorsers of these products. One example comes from the collaboration between Planet Farms, which recently launched a campaign to support the new-look range,
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For the eighth consecutive year, almonds retained the top spot as the most used nut in new product introductions in Europe in 2022. The data can be found in Innova Market Insights' Global New Product Introductions report. Italy, Germany,
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Mainly apples and kiwis will be the references that Apofruit will present at the next edition of Asia Fruit Logistica, which will be held in Hong Kong from 6 to 8 September 2023. Among the former, Candine, the innovative Regal variety apple, will be the absolute protagonists.
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Madi Ventura, a company that deals with sorting and marketing dried fruit, has developed a significant automation project to rationalise space, increasing the capacity of its warehouse from 4,000 to 8,000 pallet spaces. The project was carried out at the Chieve warehouse,
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The Tropea Experience celebrates the Cipolla Rossa di Tropea Calabria Igp (Red Onion of Tropea Calabria Igp) with a weekend aimed at promoting Calabria's tourist destination through its most famous product. read more

It is the most important time of the year for the most widely consumed fruit in Italy: the apple. In fact, the apple harvest has started in the most suitable regions, Trentino, Alto Adige and Piedmont, with numbers that seem to confirm the quality and volumes announced a couple of weeks ago in
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The tour of Dole Italia, active in the production and distribution of premium quality fresh fruit, starts again after the August break. read more

A new line of salads, called Frescaah, derived from vertical farming. This is the content of the campaign just launched by Planet Farms, a technology company specialising in the sector, between innovation and sustainability read more

A joint initiative to raise awareness on violence against women and for gender equality. It is promoted by Princes Industrie Alimentari, a company that manages the largest tomato processing plant in Europe in Apulia, and Oxfam Italia, an association in
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A EUR 10 million loan, backed by Sace's green public guarantee, to build a vertical farming plant in Agnadello, in the province of Cremona. This is the content of an agreement between Agricola Moderna and Imi Corporate & Investment Banking, led by
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For 74% of Italians, potatoes are produced in a sustainable way, and 61% of our countrymen consider the packaging that contains the potatoes to be environmentally friendly. read more

After years of growth driven by the health trend, demand for raspberries and strawberries is slowing down, while demand for blueberries, increasingly regarded as a superfood, is at a standstill. Growing cultivation areas in Italy (especially blueberries and blackberries in the North, raspberries in the South), now
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The Italian strawberry campaign 2023 started, in some regions, with higher prices, due to the mild and long-lasting winter of 2022 and the frequent frosts from January 2023 onwards. The plants suffered various stresses due to the inconsistent temperatures, which caused
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Here is another Italian record that is known to few, outside the trade: it concerns the production of fennel, of which our country is the leader in the European Union with about 370 thousand tonnes per year, obtained from 17 thousand hectares distributed in various parts of the country. Of the
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Apple and pear production forecasts were released during the eagerly awaited Prognosfruit annual conference, organised this year in Trentino by Apot (Trentino Fruit and Vegetable Producers Association) together with Wapa (World Apple and Pear Association) and Copa-Cogeca
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The commercial campaign of Metis, the premium fruit resulting from the natural cross between the plum and the apricot, started two weeks early, thanks to the first varieties from Southern Italy (Basilicata). Excellent product quality and good sales even though production
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