Happy Epiphany wishes from the IFN team
2024-01-03 00:00
After today's update, the newsletter returns with the daily appointment from Monday 8 January.
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Mazzoni enters the late clementine segment
2024-01-03 00:00
Mazzoni's citrus fruit campaign, which includes clementines, blond oranges and lemons, all strictly produced in the most suitable lands of Calabria, which started slightly late due to the high temperatures recorded at least until October, is now in full swing.
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Berries, the hidden gem in the fruit and vegetable department
2024-01-03 00:00
Among the categories of the fruit and vegetable section, the one we mistakenly call 'berries' is probably the most undervalued. Although they have never seen a forest, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries and their companions develop - as small fruits - a share of value sales equal to
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Mandarin Linbo prepares for a record-breaking season
2024-01-03 00:00
The medium-late Linbo mandarin will be back on the market in February, and it will be a record-breaking season thanks to an exceptional quality level and good volume prospects, although the club's main objective remains to raise the zero residue quota. We have
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Damage in agriculture, sixfold increase in compensation in 2023
2024-01-03 00:00
It has been repeatedly said: 2023 was a black year for damage in agriculture. The impact of the anomalous climatic trend was particularly severe in Romagna, where between frost, flood, wind and drought farmers found themselves with a production reduced to the
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"During the Christmas week we unloaded an average of four pallets of exotic fruit per day and, year after year, more and more confirmations come in for these references. Demand is increasing and consumers are sparing no expense to get the best products to put on their tables.
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The citrus fruit season is getting into full swing, and oranges are becoming one of the protagonists in the fruit and vegetable departments, but whether in a positive or negative way is still too early to tell. Certainly, this will not be one of the easiest seasons due to the dry and hot weather that until November has
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Lollobrigida: 'With the budget law we confirm the centrality of the agricultural world'
2024-01-03 00:00
"Established a fund for emergencies in agriculture with 300 million euro and strengthened the 'Card dedicated to you' from 500 to 600 million euro. After having obtained the doubling of NRP resources for the agricultural sector, with the Budget Law approved by Parliament we confirm
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How to obtain table tomatoes with high nutritional value, i.e. enriched in iodine, an essential element for human health. The international scientific journal Scientia Horticulturae published the results of a study conducted by the Research Group in Horticulture
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Italian summer fruit arrives in supermarkets ... but in December
2023-12-22 00:00
The effects of climate change are more abrupt than expected, if in December we find Italian stone fruit, cherries and melons on sale in large-scale retail outlets, as stated on the price tag;
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Arancia Rossa di Sicilia PGI on the starting line
2023-12-22 00:00
The harvest season for the Arancia Rossa di Sicilia IGP starts on 29 December. As per the consolidated production calendar, the first Sicilian blood oranges to be harvested will be those of the 'Moro' variety, immediately after New Year's Eve, from 4 January, it will be the turn of the
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TSW kicks off in January at the Fruit and Vegetable Industry Fair
2023-12-22 00:00
In the era of digital transformation, the management of farms and horticultural and fruit production is undergoing a technological revolution. These are just some of the issues that will be discussed at the congress
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Debutto a Macfrut per "Innovation Hub for Healthy Food"
2023-12-22 00:00
Debuting at Macfrut 2024 (8-10 May) is Innovation Hub For Healthy Food, the exhibition dedicated to sustainable products and processing technologies for the production of foods with high nutritional value. The new Exhibition, which will enrich an already full-bodied presence of themed areas, is
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'We are facing a global fruit trade crisis'
2023-12-22 00:00
From the Panama Canal drought to terrorist attacks on commercial vessels in the Middle East; 2023 for maritime logistics closes amid uncertainties. Riccardo Martini, managing director of Dcs Tramaco, tries to describe the prospects for the coming year toIFN.
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Budget 2023: hit rock bottom, only climb back up!
2023-12-22 00:00
Annus horribilis has already been branded by some, and the definition is as apt as ever for the fruit and vegetable sector, since in addition to wars, terrorism, political and economic instability, floods and landslides, 2023 also reserved abnormal winter warmth and spring frost,
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Former Melinda Franco Paoli appointed director of Sft
2023-12-22 00:00
Franco Paoli has been appointed director of Sft. Paoli's task, strengthened by his experience in Melinda, will be to steer the cooperative of Romagnano Aldeno towards the recovery of the accounts in order to give new life to the economic structure. The goal for 2024 is to implement a
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New for Torpedino with TorpedinUp and Torpemary
2023-12-22 00:00
Arriving on Christmas tables are TorpedinUp and Torpemary: the ketchup and Torpemary tomato drink to wish you Happy Holidays.
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Radicchi, Agribologna launches two references of the Linea 'Questo l'ho fatto io' (I made this myself) line
2023-12-22 00:00
Agribologna is launching two new references under the QLI brand: 'Radicchio tondo rosso' and 'Radicchio rosso precoce', from partner Terri Bertaggia (former producer of QLI leeks). This brings the number of first-range references to 32, joined by the aromatic 'Il Bettolino' and the 'I Cotti' line, by V
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Artichokes, rising quotations this festive season
2023-12-22 00:00
The Sardinian artichoke season had already started this year under very good auspices (click here to read more) and the increasingly low temperatures gave a real boost to both production and demand.
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"Periculturists don't be zombies"
2023-12-22 00:00
The minimum price for pears has long been one of the workhorses of grower Luigi Golinelli (in the opening photo) who, with the technical-informative-economic group 'Pears at two euros', is leading the battle for entrepreneurs (click here to read more).
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