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Fruit and vegetable price trends in Italy as at 12 February
2024-02-13 00:00
With the production of common Italian clementines coming to an end, the orange campaign marked by small calibre continues. Underwhelming or static demand for several vegetable crops, such as artichokes, cauliflower, Savoy cabbage, aubergines and fennel. Strong entry of courgettes in the markets
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Valentine's Day: retailers' choices in fruit and vegetables
2024-02-13 00:00
Holidays and festivities are for many retailers indispensable occasions to enhance one or more departments, develop cross-category logic, and promote specific product categories, particularly suited to certain times of the year. Valentine's Day is no exception,
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Dole Italia expands space and acquires 3,000 sqm at Car
2024-02-13 00:00
Dole Italia has announced the acquisition of new space within the Centro Agroalimentare di Romafor a total of 3,000 square metres to implement the company's strategic lines in the Centre-South. Mangoes, avocados, grapes, citrus and small fruits, as well as pineapples and bananas
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Angys pear, quality and volumes that satisfy the market
2024-02-12 00:00
The Angys pear campaign, exclusively produced and distributed in Italy by Spreafico Francesco & F.lli, is now in full swing. 'This year's product is of excellent quality, both organoleptically and aesthetically, with good fruit size,' comments Simone
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All Citrus, the citrus fruit specialist, is born, a merger between Agricola Lusia and La California Distribution
2024-02-12 00:00
Aggregation has always been a mantra that characterises conferences and proclamations in the horticultural world, a fine word that translates into little or no reality. It is therefore good to report some 'juicy' news that we were able to discover
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Tomra Food launches three new Ai-based solutions
2024-02-12 00:00
Tomra Food is riding the Ai wave and at Fruit Logistica in Berlin, illustrated its sorting, grading and packaging technologies with three new solutions based on artificial intelligence. A revolution also in food sorting Tomra Food Neon for pre-sorting blueberries
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Sorma Group launches anthropomorphic robot for case filling
2024-02-12 00:00
At Fruit Logistica 2024, Sorma Group launched a new case filling robot that can be integrated into the end-of-line. A solution developed at the German site that improves the automation of post-harvest processing of fruit and vegetables and is ready to be marketed. Ne
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The format of the Italian Fruit Village in Berlin is a success
2024-02-09 00:00
The sixth edition of the Italian Fruit Villageat Fruit Logistica closed with great satisfaction. "The surface area has increased significantly, the number of exhibitors has grown, 23 direct exhibitors, many of them collective entities with hundreds of other farms
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Unica Fresh's Zucchiolo wins Flia 2024
2024-02-09 00:00
Awarded the Flia at Fruit Logistica 2024: the winner is a new product, Zucchiolo from Spain's Unica Fresh. The Mirical packaging from the Dutch company Koppert then won the Flia Technology, launched for the first time this year. A total of around 70
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Apple time: ad-hoc exhibitions in fruit and vegetables
2024-02-09 00:00
In many sales outlets, there is space for apples with dedicated displays and events to promote the products in the assortment, but also to inform consumers about the characteristics of these references. Let's take a look at some of the fruit and vegetable departments. Sun 365: focus on Melannurca and the
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Italian Fruit Village hosts debates on sector crisis
2024-02-08 00:00
How to revive the fortunes of the fruit and vegetable sector? The three presidents of the sector's main trade associations, Ettore Prandini (Coldiretti), Massimiliano Giansanti(Confagricoltura) and Cristiano Fini (Cia-Agricoltori Italiani), expressed their thoughts on the occasion of
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SanLucar launches heart-shaped packs, not just for Valentine's Day
2024-02-08 00:00
SanLucara Fruit Logistica 2024 presented some novelties. "We are launching heart-shaped packages with different products, the blueberry, strawberry, cherry tomato, grape, which will be available all year round and especially during festivities," Erminio Colombini reports,
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Radicchio in IV gamma, the novelty of Geofur and La Grande Bellezza Italiana at Fruit Logistica
2024-02-08 00:00
In a market, such as the fourth range market, which in the fruit and vegetable world is not having a happy moment, it is almost surprising to find a novelty like the one we saw on the Geofur stand at Fruit Logistica 2024. We are talking about fourth range radicchio, proposed by a
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On 21 and 22 November 2024, the Interpoma Congress, a world-class event dedicated entirely to the apple sector, will be held at Fiera Bolzano. Coordinating the proceedings will be Walter Guerra, head of the pomology working group of the Laimburg Experimentation Centre. "Also
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Green light for Tea, a revolution for the seed world
2024-02-07 00:00
The EU continues to move closer to farmers' demands. With 307 votes in favour and 263 against, the Strasbourg plenary approved the proposal to regulate Tea(assisted evolution techniques) or Ngt (New Genomic Techniques), such as genome editing and cisgenesis,
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Sipo, mushrooms a steadily growing niche #vocidellortofrutta
2024-02-06 00:00
Depth of range and intended use. Sipopoldo a lot on the offer of the funghia brand Sapori del Mio Orto. "Ė one of the families of excellence in our offerings and is growing with volumes in 2023 up 7% year-on-year and is a development for us
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Mit, an off-show at Fruit Logistica promoting Italian taste
2024-02-06 00:00
Mit (an acronym that stands for Meet Italian taste) is one of the main events for the promotion and enhancement of Italian products held in Berlin in conjunction with Fruit Logistica, the reference trade fair for the fruit and vegetable sector. A format where b2b and b2c meet. With
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Launched on 1 February, at the end of Veguanary, Plant Based Lovers, the vertical eCommerce, signed by the Milan-based to.market, dedicated to plant-based products that are increasingly entering the diets of Italian consumers, not only vegans, but also and
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Fruit and vegetable price trends in Italy as at 5 February
2024-02-06 00:00
The prices of many fruit and vegetable crops are falling. More pigmented late varieties of oranges are coming onto the market, although demand is not optimal. Late varieties of clementines, such as Hernandina and Tango, are also coming in. The Romanesco artichoke harvest is about to start and
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EU, turnaround on cutting plant protection products, choral applause
2024-02-06 00:00
Something is moving. New EU backtrack on the Green Deal: the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in her speech to the European Parliament plenary session in Strasbourg, announced that she will propose to the College of Commissioners the formal withdrawal of the proposal to
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