Longer days, rising temperatures, a desire to be outdoors more: welcome to the warm weather! If with the arrival of the first warm weather, we say goodbye to woollen jumpers and heavy jackets and finally make way for t-shirts and canvas shoes, even at the table habits
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On the floods that have been hitting Emilia Romagna in the last few hours, we have collected the views of the trade associations; read more

While Italian cuisine is being nominated as a candidate for UNESCO intangible heritage, at the CAAT Centro Agro Alimentare in Turin, asparagus - one of the symbolic products of excellence among the most classic vegetables of the Turin plain, and in particular of that area of the permeable, sandy
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Ovid's eruca salax never ceases to amaze: in addition to its well-known aphrodisiac properties, it is good for the heart. From the rocket of the Sele plain, in the province of Salerno, a drug can be extracted to combat hypertension and cardiovascular diseases, proving to be a real
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Yesterday Emilia Romagna woke up under water once again, and our thoughts go first of all to the victims (there is talk of at least eight dead in Romagna) and those displaced by the flood: our editorial office is in Romagna and many of us are from Romagna, so we feel part of this
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If summer fruit is not among the favourite products on the markets in these days of bad weather (click here to read more), the trend for citrus fruit remains positive. We talked about this with Gianluca Fantini, sales manager of Siban srl, who gave us an overview of the oranges of
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Last year was the absolute market debut for the Giubilo F1 cherry. The variety, created by Hazera and distributed by Vilmorin-Mikadowon the trust of Sicilian growers thanks to its characteristics. In fact, the cherry tomato proved to be an excellent product in the
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The EUR 150 million from the PNRR allocated to Italian agri-food markets will generate an additional turnover of EUR 2.8 billion annually (today it amounts to EUR 10 billion) and 7,000 jobs. A necessary but not sufficient first step to ground the real potential of
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This morning the new Nova Coop supermarket in Alpignano, via Venarian. 39, which will observe the following opening hours: Monday to Saturday 8.30 am - 8.00 pm and Sunday 8.30 am - 1.30 pm.   read more

Reducing the product weight to meet consumer needs. This is what Fresco Senso, the Agribologna group's IV gamma brand, has done with the Osè line, dedicated to 100% fruit veloutés. The product, made with the HPP pasteurisation system - which
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Six hundred thousand euro swindled from 17 dealers, a further 100 thousand involved two other boxes. Goods bought and not paid for, in a system that appears almost consolidated and that alarms - and not a little - all operators in the fruit and vegetable chain. It is happening at the Vittoria market in
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Dear readers, I am very pleased that my editorial on 'pesticides' has garnered so much interest and led so many authoritative experts to send in their views. For this I thank them, with the promise that we will try to respond to everyone. Among the comments received
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Apofruit, a cooperative of fruit and vegetable producers with more than 2,700 members throughout Italy, hails the 2023 edition of Macfrut, the international fruit and vegetable exhibition, as one of the best ever. "This appointment - explains the president Mirco Zanotti - has been confirmed
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A few days ago, in the presence of the President of the Piedmont Region, Alberto Cirio, Vice-President Fabio Carosso and the Regional Councillor for Agriculture, Food, Hunting and Fishing, Marco Protopapa, the new experimental centre of Fondazione
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We reproduce a letter we received from one of our readers, as well as a fruit grower in Romagna, Mr Gaspare Conti, stimulated by the article that came out a few days ago (click here to read) and which does not require a reply. read more

The Festa del BIO, the reference event for Italian organic food, on Saturday 27 May, at the Acquario Romano, Piazza Manfredo Fanti 47, a few metres from Termini station, is a fun and cheerful event, free and open to all to get to know the good
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The weather these days, which is not exactly spring-like, is directly influencing sales in the markets and, this, also affects the agricultural phase. read more

Ortomad, a company of the La Linea Verde group specialising in the production and marketing of first and fourth range fruit and vegetables, has decided to entrust the extensive digitisation project of the entire field production chain to the tech companyxFarm Technologies; read more

The shareholders approved the financial statements of Consorzi Agrari d'Italia as at 31 December 2022, which closed with a net profit of EUR 3.2 million, an EBITDA of EUR 15.4 million, and a value of production of EUR 587 million. read more

The California Table Grape Commission continues its work to regularise unauthorised plantings of the protected seedless white grape varieties 'Autumn King', 'Scarlet Royal' and 'Sweet Scarlet'. The Commission has initiated, starting in September 2022, a programme of
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