Gebr. Gentile AG and Agrotomato AG are taking their long-standing collaboration to a new level. The two companies have decided to enter into a long-term strategic partnership to combine their strengths and shape the future together. The entire production of Agrotomato SA will be
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Yesterday, 26 February 2024, the Council of the European Union decided to extend the restrictive measures linked to internal repression in Belarus and the regime's support for Russia's war against Ukraine by another year, until 28 February 2025. The decision was made on the
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"These days we have almost completed the processing of Friarielli in oil and cream, the production of which has doubled this year due to the extraordinary demand from the foreign countries where we are present (United States, Spain, France and Germany). These markets
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The Food Service channel is tinged with blue. Ruggiero launches the new and exclusive Premium Box Line on the market, a selection of the best varieties of potatoes, each with its own culinary use, proposed in practical Total Blue boxes designed specifically for the world of catering and the food service channel.
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Costa Group has achieved another important milestone in its more than 120-year history: ownership of the company has officially changed hands after being delisted from the ASX earlier this month. read more

A Scottish hospital has been forced to apologise after criticism for serving patients a "disgusting" beige-coloured meal with no vegetables. Lara, a patient's daughter, shared a photo on X of the lunch served at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow, which was made up of
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Antonio Carmona, president of the citrus fruit trade association Palmanaranja, urges citrus growers not to allow a decrease in profitability by selling below production costs. These declarations come in response to the arrival of oranges from Egypt to the
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On the recent discovery in Apulia of the Xylella subspecies that attacks cherry trees and vines (see related article), Corrado Vigo, a long-standing agronomist with a long list of positions in the National Council of the Order of Agronomists and in
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Appetite for Fairtrade bananas continues to grow in Canada. As Fairtrade America and Fairtrade Canada recently reported, over the past six years, volumes of Fairtrade bananas in Canada have increased by 466 percent (compared to 15 percent for Fairtrade bananas in Canada).
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A calendar covering almost 12 months of the year, with table tomatoes as well as yellow and red lamuyo peppers; among the tomato segments: the smooth round (the so-called cluster tomato), cherry, date, oblong and midi plum. It is precisely on this last item that 'The Gold Seal',
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In January 2024 inflation rebounded slightly, rising to 0.8% from 0.6 in December 2023. The moderate acceleration in the pace of price growth reflects the trend in the prices of regulated energy goods, whose decline on a trend basis in January was mitigated
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Amid continuing protests by farmers in several Member States, including Spain, the EU Council of Agriculture Ministers yesterday began discussions on the proposal to simplify the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) presented by the European Commission last week.
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The Limorè brand lemon campaign is in the central phase of harvesting and marketing the product, but difficulties are always just around the corner, according to Pietro Buongiorno, president of the Rocca Imperiale Consortium of Associated Lemon Producers. read more

After a difficult cherry season, the Chilean exporter Olivar Export is enthusiastic about sending D'Agen or Sugar Plums to China. Matías Fernández, commercial director of Olivar Export, points out: "Although the fervour of the Chinese market for the D'Agen plums
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