Dear Director, I am writing you this e-mail because I would like to ask you a question. As you can see, in the attached photo there are two clementines, the one on the left is given in my son's canteen lunch while the one on the right was bought from the greengrocer. I do not want to emphasise the
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It differs from other types of tomatoes in its production schedule, taste, size and colour, as well as its long shelf-life. It is 'iLCamone, the real one', the authentic Italian Camone tomato grown exclusively by four selected companies between Sardinia and Sicily, including
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It is called 'Good and fair stories', the Caab's project to tell the story of its market operators and its fruit and vegetable excellence; read more

The Danish shipping giant Maersk has announced that it will divert all ships from the Red Sea routes around the Cape of Good Hope and, this, will cause significant disruption considering that about one third of global container ship cargo passes through the Suez Canal. read more

The Danish shipping giant Maersk has announced that it will divert all ships from the Red Sea routes around the Cape of Good Hope and, this, will cause significant disruption considering that about one third of global container ship cargo passes through the Suez Canal. read more

After a 'wholesale' Christmas without any particular surprises (click here to read more), we wanted to analyse the trends in the final part of the festive period, up to Epiphany. From the operators' accounts, it emerges a market that was more active until Christmas and in a state of slumber in the days
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It is time for blood oranges and OP Esperidio knows it well as it starts 2024 with the debut of its new 'Pure Red' brand. As they tell IFN from the Sicilian Op, Pure Red represents the desire to innovate the Sicilian agricultural tradition in a sustainable way, as well as to enhance and
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The year 2023 closed with worrying data for kiwifruit: The bacterial canker of the actinidia, caused by the microorganism Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae, continues to ravage orchards and, in the year just ended, there was a 7% reduction in production compared to 2022; read more

The bad weather that has been raging in Italy over the last few days is also causing various disruptions to transport. This is the case of several tractor-trailers that overturned with their load of fruit and vegetables on a Delta Tour ferry that was travelling along the route
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The autumn-winter vegetable campaign of Futuragri, a leading Apulian company in the production and marketing of fruit and vegetables, continues. The season began at the turn of October and November for the harvest of brassicas, spinach, celery and
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He is a Serie A footballer but, in his spare time, he enjoys working on his family's farm, the 'Baschirotto Farm'. We are talking about Federico Baschirotto (first on the left in the opening photo), class of 1996, a Lecce defender who was interviewed in the last few days
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The list of nominees (click here to read more) for this year's edition of the highly acclaimed FRUIT LOGISTICA Innovation Award (FLIA) has been published by the leading trade fair for the global fresh fruit and vegetable industry. The winners of the annual awards for
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We start the year with the usual surveys of large-scale retail shops, and this week we visited the Interspar shop in Parma, a 2,500 m2 shop that has been open for seven years. The structure is beautiful and modern, very bright, with the fruit and vegetable department located in
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We do not yet know whether there will be a boom in cashierless supermarkets this year. Although the assumptions seem to be there, as Esselunga and Pam Panorama have also announced investments in this direction; read more

The Consorzio di tutela del Radicchio Rosso di Treviso IGP (Consortium for the Protection of Red Radicchio from Treviso PGI) does not agree. When asked to let a group of American producers visit their farms, they responded in unison in the negative; read more

Inflation does not only frighten consumers but also retail chains, which is why some retail chains in France are taking action in an attempt to curb the excessive price increases practised by some big names in the food sector, as reported by Il Sole
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The crowning achievement of intensive research by Syngenta Vegetable Seeds is Redix, the new prismatic variety that stands out for production and quality. It is a medium early to medium early transplanting tomato that stands out on the market
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In France, declaring weight reduction on packaging is about to become law. According to the online magazine foodretail.es, the French government has in fact sent a proposal to the European Commission to make it compulsory to declare the reduction in weight on packaging.
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The strawberries and small fruits of Huelva (Spain) are endangered due to severe irrigation shortages in the area; read more

According to preliminary ISTAT estimates, in December 2023 the national consumer price index for the entire community (NIC), before tobacco, rose by 0.2% on a monthly basis and by 0.6% on an annual basis (from +0.7% in the previous month); read more