Late yesterday evening, the Council Presidency and representatives of the European Parliament reached a provisional political agreement on the proposal for a regulation on packaging and packaging waste. The aim, as is well known, is to tackle the increase in waste of
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It has become a commonplace to complain about the poor quality of the fruit and vegetables we find on supermarket shelves, often with good reason, but it is undeniable that in recent years producers have been introducing new varieties onto the market that are much more
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A presentation tour of Macfrut 2024 took place last week in Cuba. Cuban fruit and vegetable companies have already taken part in the exhibition for three editions, and last year there were more than 50 operators from the Caribbean country; read more

We opened the new year with a January in which the succession of days saw overnight frosts, no precipitation and sunny phases during the day, bringing temperature values back to the winter period, compared to the previous month when they were slightly above average
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The success achieved in terms of awareness and Roi with the digital communication for Fragola Matera®, conceived and produced by Brand-Cross in 2022 and 2023, led Nicofruit® - a company of the Frutthera Growers Cooperative, founded in 1993 in Basilicata as a family business and today composed of
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However, participation in the GulFood international fair in Dubai - where fruit and vegetables play a marginal role - allowed me, on the one hand, to meet several buyers from major local retail chains, such as LuLu, Almaya, Union Coop, Grandiose Supermarket and
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A new ribbon-cutting ceremony for Lidl Italia, which recently opened its first store in Cassano D'Adda, Via Milano 80. This is the 44th Lidl store in the centre and province of Milan, where the company has significantly strengthened its sales network in recent years.
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According to preliminary estimates, the national consumer price index for the entire community (NIC), before tobacco, increased by 0.1 % on a monthly basis and by 0.8 % on an annual basis in February 2024 (as in the previous month). read more

Continuing, as usual, to give voice to modern distribution operators for a monthly review of market trends at the retail stage, for the February 'Distribution Barometer' of Monitor Ortofrutta, our choice fell on Unicoop
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Fourth 'evolved' range, innovative fruit and vegetable snacks, fresh juices subjected to high-pressure treatments. Product and process innovation is at home at Macfrut (Rimini Expo Centre 8-10 May 2024) protagonist in the first edition of the Innovation Hub For Healthy Food,
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After the lull recorded in 2022, the organic market continued to remain stable in 2023 and we see the same trends continuing in the first two months of the new year. Providing IFN with the picture of the situation is Paolo Pari, director of Almaverde Bio, with whom we
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Ettore Prandini, President of Coldiretti, makes an appeal to the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Matteo Salvini, asking for an urgent meeting in order to verify how to finally implement the reservoir project: "Italy only manages to recover 11% of the 300
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"If southern Europe were a single country, it would be the world's leading exporter of aubergines and the second for products such as cucumbers and peppers,' begins with this lapidary statementJuan Carlos Pérez Mesa, professor at the University of Almería, in an interview for the programme
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The resources already allocated by Masaf to projects under the PNRR 'Agrisolar Park' measure, boosted by the second call for proposals launched by Minister Francesco Lollobrigida, rise to over EUR 1.1 billion. The objective is to support, with non-repayable financing, agricultural enterprises in the
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What opportunities are contained in the government's fiscal proxy for agricultural and agribusiness entrepreneurs? And what are the best ways to access credit? These questions were answered by the Deputy Minister of Economy and Finance Maurizio Leo and the top
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Due to climate change, which has resulted in increasingly frequent and extreme events, insurance companies have recorded negative results in 8 out of the last 10 campaigns. This, in addition to a considerable increase in insurance rates, has led to a major
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"I applaud the women and men of the Guardia di Finanza in Gallipoli and the ICQRFI South-East Italy Office for the joint operation that led to the seizure of 33 tonnes of potatoes, presumably from abroad, whose traceability was allegedly disguised in order to sell them on the
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Protected orchards to cope with climate change, plant diseases and increasingly extreme weather phenomena. From fans to heating candles, from protective nets to frost protection systems and increasingly specialised irrigation systems. read more

The rainy week that has just passed certainly did not help sales in general, as it restricted the operations of the hawkers. There is little demand for citrus fruit, and only the large-calibre varieties are fetching attractive prices because supply is limited, as opposed to the
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Drones, fruit-picking robots, irrigation sensors, precision animal husbandry. The agriculture of the future will rely more and more on artificial intelligence, with technologies and methodologies that will be able to radically transform agricultural work, both for
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