From orange peels come lamps. It's not science fiction but just the intuition of the Milanese design studio Krill Design that transforms waste into new products thanks to an innovative process of valorisation. read more

The disastrous weather conditions of recent weeks, with constant rainfall and peaks of humidity, have created fertile ground for the proliferation of downy mildew. In recent seasons, with the dry months of April and May, the development of the disease had been very limited. But in the
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They are at the heart of it: the farmers and farmwives of the Vinschgau. They have forged themselves, generation after generation, overcoming the challenges of mountain apple growing. Passionate, determined, competitive, proud. It is due first and foremost to them that VIP can offer, on the markets of the middle
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Etna once again put on a show this year with a strong eruption followed by a shower of ash that covered the Etnean hinterland. Loud rumblings and a dense cloud enveloped the volcano from last Sunday; a cloud that, shortly afterwards, turned into a battering
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The flood that hit the Emilia-Romagna region hard last week did not leave Maap, the Padua Food Market, indifferent, as it donated two tonnes of fruit and vegetables to Russi, a small municipality of 12,000 inhabitants in Ravenna, which distributed the produce among the
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Conad Nord Ovest and Conad Centro Nord have established a company that will manage logistics and transport for the entire sales network in the Emilia area of the two cooperatives. It is called 'Emilog', the ambitious functional aggregation project to optimise activities
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The conference 'Fruit and Vegetable Sector: Competitiveness, Prospects and a Vision for the Future', organised by Italia Ortofrutta - Unione Nazionale as part of its 54th annual assembly of its more than 140 member Producer Organisations (POs), took place in Rome. read more

The interest of foreign interlocutors from Northern Europe for vegetables of the V range is growing. This was witnessed by the Annatura company after its participation in the TuttoFood fair in Milan. read more

For the past few days, the 'Petali' salads of Kilometro Verde (click here to read more) have been the protagonists of the fruit and vegetable department of some Coop Italia shops (Coop in San Lazzaro di Savena and Coop Centro Commerciale Le Lame in Bologna). read more

Italiafruit's editorial office is adjacent to Piazza Saffi, in that part of the historic centre of Forlì spared by the waters: Unfortunately, the same has not happened to some of our team members who live in the neighbouring areas, from Faenza to Bagnacavallo, from Cesena to Ravenna, up to the first
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13 victims and still some missing, 250 active landslides, 40 municipalities flooded from Reggio Emilia to the whole of Romagna, 20 rivers overflowed. These are the preliminary numbers of the flood, which still lack the damage to industries, farms and foodstuffs, homes, and infrastructure. Computo
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"We need a shock plan for the agri-food sector in Romagna'. This was the appeal made by the president of Emilia-Romagna, Stefano Bonaccini, who spoke a few days ago at the microphones of the Mattino Cinque News programme. "We will demand 100 per cent reimbursement for the agri-food sector and the postponement of the
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"If the plant protection regulation proposed by the European Commission were to be adopted as it is, Italian fruit and vegetables would risk losing 20-30% of their production. Agreeable to limit use but fruit and vegetables still need chemicals to safeguard the
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The year May 2023 will certainly not be easily forgotten because of the climatic disasters in our country; from North to South, Italy is bent by catastrophic phenomena that, unfortunately, have claimed victims and will cause incalculable economic damage, above all,
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EvenConserve Italia was not immune to the flood that hit Romagna last week. As reported by Il Resto del Carlino, heavy damage was suffered by the plant in Barbiano di Cotignola. Here, one of Europe's leading agri-food consortia produces juices
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I will not dwell on the search for the causes and responsibilities of what has happened in Romagna over the past few days. Too many pages of newspapers and television schedules have already been filled, although, I believe, to no avail, since since November 1951 - after the Polesine disaster -
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After months of interminable negotiations, the agreement on the price of processing tomatoes for the 2023 North Italian marketing year between the Producer Organisations and the Industry, at EUR 150 per tonne (excluding services), has been concluded with extreme delay. read more

Strong is the concern of Italmercati, the national network of wholesale markets, for the consequences that the flooding in Emilia Romagna is generating in the lives of Emilia Romagna operators and that in the coming weeks will extend to the entire national food sector and to
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Federdistribuzione presented its 2023 sustainability report on modern distribution in Rome. As reported by the publication Distribuzione Moderna, the picture highlighted is that of a concrete contribution of the distribution sector to the environmental, social and economic development of the
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Confagricoltura Emilia Romagna is beginning to write the numbers of the disaster in the crater hit by the flood. We are talking about at least 10 million fruit trees to be uprooted - in particular peach and kiwii trees, which are more sensitive to water stagnation, but also apricot trees - along the
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