Romagnoli F.lli Spa, one of Italy's leading fruit and vegetable companies, obtains the UNI/PdR 125:2022 Gender Equality certification required by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR). In a path of continuous improvement in terms of social sustainability, this achievement
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After the first nine months, Italians' fruit and vegetable purchases seem to be showing some timid signs of recovery, with an improvement in the last quarter making the figures positive compared to the first six months of 2023. What is worsening is the inflationary effect: if at
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In Huelva, the past few days have seen heavy rainfall accompanied by strong gusts of wind that have compromised the raspberry harvest, reducing it by 95% in the Cartaya area.The storm that hit the area severely damaged the crops, destroying
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Global warming and its effects on walnuts were the main topics of the 19th Walnut Day, held at the beginning of the month at the San Martino farm, in the village of the same name near Forlì, and organised by New Factor. During the conference "La Noce di Romagna
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In Apulia, in the Foggia area, the artichoke season is beginning, but the sentiment is anything but positive. The heat in southern Italy shows no sign of letting up and seasonal produce is cornered. Apulian producer Ermanno Barletta describes the anomalous situation to IFN
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Forum Retail 2023, the largest Experience & Networking Hub - organised by IKN Italy - that has been bringing together the retail community for 23 years, has kicked off. Artificial & Human Intelligence to excel in a fluctuating market is the macro-theme of the new edition that has
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Vegetables also grow underground with indoor vertical farming systems. An example of this is the structure realised in Torrita di Siena, located in an old World War II anti-aircraft tunnel that runs for about 186 metres under the historical centre of the town; read more

On the occasion of the 23rd edition of Forum Retail - the largest technology networking hub for the retail community organised by iKN Italy - Stefano Cini, Head of Consumer & GeoMkt Intelligence at NielsenIQ, presented a preview of research dedicated to the
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Kiwifruit packing stations are competing in an ever-changing market. Global demand is increasing, but consumer expectations of quality are also growing, and this confronts packers with two potentially conflicting objectives. The first is that
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The situation and future prospects of the nut sector in Italy is the focus of the scientific event that opened yesterday in San Michele. Two days of discussion among some fifty researchers on the current situation of consumption, production and
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Over two thousand farmers in Rome to say, with Cia, 'Don't take away our future'. Yesterday, the Confederation's national demonstration filled Piazza Santi Apostoli and the streets of the city centre with a large number of producers and breeders arriving from all over Italy, with placards and green flags, to
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In Italy, some farms have been decorating their premises with a typical autumn fruit, the pumpkin, in October for several years now, turning into 'Pumpkin Villages'. The format was borrowed from the United States, where it is called
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The year 2023 closes with an excellent balance sheet for garlic in Veneto, 90% of which is concentrated in the province of Rovigo, definitely making a comeback compared to the drought-stricken 2022 that caused production to suffer. According to 2022 data from Veneto Agricoltura, throughout Veneto the area under garlic is
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Due to overbuilding and abandonment, Italy has lost almost 1/3 (30%) of its agricultural land in the last half century, with the usable agricultural area in Italy reduced to just 12.8 million hectares and effects on the hydrogeological seal of the land and the
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It is a solid and growing balance sheet that presented by Agrintesa, concerning the financial year 2022-2023 (ending 30/4/2023), unanimously approved by the separate shareholders' meetings held between 18 and 24 October. The group's consolidated balance sheet reaches a value of EUR 359 million.
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The researcher's dream is to be able to measure his feelings, his hypotheses, his theories but also his doubts directly in the field. Often this direct verification is not possible, so one has to be content to wait for ex post statistics to confirm or not the
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In the forty-first week of 2023, the trends in fruit and vegetables by imposed weight are again approaching those of Lcc, and even in the progressive the distance is getting shorter. In terms of channels, discounters are the only loss-makers among the physical ones. read more

The headlines that appeared yesterday following the vote in the European Parliament's Environment Committee on the proposal for a regulation on packaging and packaging waste (PPWR), erroneously spoke of a clear victory for the green ideology when it comes to packaging. read more

Just over 2.18 million households (8.3% of the total from 7.7% in 2021) and more than 5.6 million individuals (9.7% up from 9.1% in the previous year) are in absolute poverty in 2022. read more

"We would like to reassure the large-scale retail trade that the new marketing year is looking very promising with a qualitatively and quantitatively satisfactory production and able to guarantee the supply of blood orange varieties.
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