Christmas Day is just around the corner, the streets are decked out and the typical poinsettias, an ornamental plant also known as Poinsettia, cannot be missed. read more

The Agribologna Group's V Gamma line - 'I Cotti' by Questo l'ho fatto io - launches a new reference. The orange sweet potato arrives on the shelves of the large-scale retail trade. This brings to 8 the number of products, all 100% natural, with no added condiments, of the vegetable line
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After nine months, imports of fruit and vegetables are proceeding apace, with double-digit increases in both volume (+12%) and value (+14%), matched by a free-falling trade balance in volume, with a deficit of almost 400 thousand tonnes. Conversely, at the monetary level
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Conad continues the implementation of its 2023 - 2025 development plan, which envisages investments of around EUR 2 billion for network strengthening, digitisation and innovation, by announcing an interesting new addition to its branded product offering of the
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Italy's first Carrefour Contact has opened, a new format with the dual objective of helping to revitalise Milan's Piazza Angilberto and lowering sales prices by 10%, making it one of the city's least expensive. read more

The Ministry of Agriculture has published the call for subsidised crop production policies for the year 2023. The main novelty is that it sets at 40% of the eligible expenditure the coverage of the cost of the policy incurred by the farmer through
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With Daniele Vaccari of the Eurorinascita stand, which operates at the Brescia wholesale market, we focused on the world of potatoes, which is continuing to record high quotations for this season. read more

The Multicedilancia Group launches the Christmas video campaign 'Being there is a daily choice' for the Decò brand, with a light and emotional representation of the brand values. read more

As IFN reported last week (click here to read more), brassicas have reached very high prices for this time of year. We were not used to stellar prices for these products in late November - early December and this is a temporary situation
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The world of vegetable alternatives to cheese is finding more and more space on the market, with tasty and innovative proposals: this is the case of the brand Ortìa, which recently launched Cremosi, a line of vegetable spreads based on chickpeas and cashews; read more

An exciting season is unfolding in the Piana di Fondi for the Sweet Palermo pepper, the result of research work by Rijk Zwaan. Luca Peppe, president of the Agripeppe cooperative, describes the moment for this unique pepper to IFN. read more

Experimental trials are underway for the final year of the applied research project entitled "Activities aimed at verifying the increase in post-harvest shelf life of fruit and vegetables through the testing of a catalytic hydrated photo-oxidation device".
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If last year's fourth range spinach season did not start off on the right foot (click here to read more), this season production is also facing a difficult period, caused by a mix of causes. We delved into the situation with Giulio Benvenuti,
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Today, Tuesday 12 December, marks the click day for the arrival in Italy of 82,550 non-EU seasonal workers envisaged by the new three-year Dpcm (of 27 September 2023) for the transitional programming of flows 2023-2025, which reserves 40,000 units for the nulla osta presented by the
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F.lli Orsero is celebrating the magic of the festive season inside the fruit and vegetable markets of Milan, Verona, Bologna, Florence, Rome, Cagliari, Macerata and Pescara, with a rich calendar of initiatives dedicated to wholesalers and fruit merchants. Since yesterday, the Fruttital stands have come alive thanks to a
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"Plants derived from new genomic techniques are an essential tool for improving the sustainability of production processes in agriculture and contributing to food security and European food sovereignty, which we now consider to be under threat. read more

The festive season is approaching: a climate of joy and serenity and the desire to share the warm Christmas atmosphere with loved ones, perhaps in front of a laid table, where some tasty but healthy treats are a must. Current trends reveal, in fact, an increasingly
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,Avoiding manual thinning in the apple tree is feasible, while in the peach tree it is still a chimera (especially since the risk of late frosts has returned). Certainly, this technique cannot be disregarded in order to achieve adequate quality production, in terms of size and flavour, on
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The National Organic Action Plan is finally a reality. The Plan, which represents an indispensable step to support the ecological transition of Italian agri-food systems, has just been approved at the State-Regions Conference and implements
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For pear lovers, the current season is holding two constants in store. On the one hand, higher prices in the order of 40% on pears of national origin, with even higher peaks for the Abate variety; on the other hand, the presence of an important share of products on sale
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