The Ministry of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Forestry and Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena have signed a memorandum of understanding to make available to Italian agricultural and agri-food enterprises a €1 billion fund to support investments and
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Faced with an inflation rate that, still in April, was +8.3% in our country, despite the now clear reduction not only in energy costs but also in agricultural commodities, a keen observer such as Ferruccio de Bortoli, in the columns of Corriere della Sera, wondered
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After the excellent results of the last edition (click here to read more) Macfrut is back in the limelight. read more

BNL BNP Paribas, through BNL Leasing, finalised a leasing transaction worth EUR 20 million in favour of PAC 2000A, the largest cooperative in the Conad Group in terms of size and turnover, with a sales network extending across Umbria, Lazio, Campania, Calabria and Sicily,
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After dropping 4.6 % in 2021, sales of organic food and beverages grew by 0.5 % last year, lower than expected especially in a strongly inflationary environment (+9.1 % price growth for food and beverages in 2022). In the same
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A dream of sustainability realised: this is what the Noah pallet (click here to read more) represents for Monica Artosi, General Manager of Cpr System. With her, we retraced the steps that led to the realisation of the project, testifying to what only a research
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News at Fico. The management passes 100% to the Farinetti family. As reported by the Corriere della Sera, the new president of the company will be Oscar's youngest son, 32-year-old Andrea Farinetti.
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Damage amounting to at least 6 million euro, but the bill is growing by the day: this is the first balance of the disaster that Legacoop Romagna, the Agricultural Cooperatives of the Province of Ravenna and the National Seed Consortium presented to the regional councillor for Agriculture
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A tool that celebrates the variety of aromas and flavours of Marlene® apples together with 5 international chefs who embody the values of origin, sustainability and quality. It is the new varietal folder that, after the Flavour Wheel, represents the second chapter of the apple journey
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Italy is looking to Israel not only for an increasingly efficient use of water, with state-of-the-art irrigation systems, but also to solve the problem of the effect of excessive soil salinity on plants.K-Adriatica, a company specialising in the development of
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In Spain it is speculation alert. The watermelon campaign has just begun, but producers are already struggling with collapsing prices, well below current production costs and among the lowest ever recorded. Denouncing the situation is Coag (Coordination of the
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ALDI, part of the ALDI SÜD Group, a leading multinational retailer and one of the world's most important players, continues its growth plan in Italy by announcing new career opportunities in its more than 150 shops and 2 poles
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"In the last few days there is quite a bit of movement as far as sales of apples and citrus fruits are concerned". Amato Marocca, of Fratelli Marocca Srl, a wholesaler specialised in pears and apples that has been operating in the Centro Agroalimentare di Roma for more than 50 years, told IFN. read more

On Tuesday, 9 May, the customary monthly meeting of the Assomela Marketing Committee took place, during which the market situation of the Italian apple sector over the past month was analysed. Italian apple stocks at 1 May stood at 378,311 tons, down 10%.
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In the last few days at Macfrut I have been asked this question: 'How come large-scale distribution is 'demonised' by the production world? 7A question that in my opinion is provocative, full of preconceptions, which in 2023 I would never have expected, because it is certainly a child of the past, as it is
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"Only with superior quality plants will the new plantings by Italian (and other) fruit growers be able to guarantee the desired economic results; the QVI mark (Qualità Vivaistica Italia) distinguishes precisely those fruit plant nursery productions of
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Depleted soil, new diseases, drought, lack of cold hours, extreme weather events: these are some of the challenges faced during the fourth edition of the Biosolutions International Congress. Organised by Agri2000 Net on the second day of Macfrut (4 May), the event
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Amongst neighbourhood formats with food service, the realisation of Eataly in the centre of Milan is certainly noteworthy. The fruit and vegetable department looks like a real market and is central to the shop, in the true sense of the word; read more

On the occasion of Macfrut2023, the Ribera Orange P.D.O. Parlapiano Sicilia met with the Minister of Agriculture Lollobrigida, whose priority is the promotion of P.D.O. and P.G.I. products and the strengthening of Made in Italy. read more

After the post-pandemic record levels, with annual production reaching 8.3 billion square metres in 2021, the Italian corrugated cardboard industry, a sector that generates a total annual turnover of more than 4 billion in our country, is now stable and healthy
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