For stone fruit, the week began with substantial arrivals on the markets, especially from abroad. read more

A week has passed. A long week marked by days that were all the same, grappling with the water that entered homes and devastated entire farms. After the floods in the province of Ravenna, it is still too early to draw up a damage count, as well as venturing to determine with
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In Spain, the price of fresh vegetables increased by 27.8% in March compared to the same period last year and by 5.7% compared to last month. In addition, vegetable preparations, such as IV gamma, also increased by 15% compared to the same month last year.
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Success for the participation at Macfrut 2023 of Road to Quality, the Assosementi project set up to guarantee traceability and quality of horticultural products along the entire supply chain, from seed to table. During the Rimini exhibition, which in its fortieth edition set a record of
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In the 2022-23 marketing year, for the Italian market - which is the main market and absorbs 60 per cent of the apples produced by the Consortium - VIP defended sales volumes on traditional varieties and increased those of club apples, which grew by about 50 per cent compared to the previous season.
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HM.Clause's challenge is to create disease-resistant and aphid-repellent melon varieties without losing the fruit's distinctive sweet taste. And that is what it has succeeded in doing with the retatoRubino F1 and the Charentais Dolcir F1, which have already been on the market for a few years. From
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Small fruits were the protagonists at Macfrut 2023; during the event several solutions were tested in the experimental fields of the exhibition. Great performance for Arrigoni's agro-textiles. "The areas of small fruits are expanding even in areas with little vocation because of the climate
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Assisted evolution technologies promise to be the key tool to increase the sustainability of agricultural systems. A crucial challenge for the competitiveness of the national agri-food sector and for scientific research in our country: creating varieties resistant to the
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A record year for agribusiness, which saw Italian exports grow by +17% in 2022 over 2021, surpassing EUR 61 billion in value; read more

"There is no more time, we have to save the Abate pear; it is intolerable to risk losing a jewel of our fruit-growing,' with these words the Secretary General of Coldiretti, Vincenzo Gesmundo characterised the key passage of his opening speech at the conference
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The Emilia-Romagna peach-growing industry has a new opportunity to relaunch itself and it is called Ondine. The international club project for flat white-fleshed peaches and nectarines (which in Italy involves 4 top partners: Agrintesa-Alegra, Greenyard, Mazzoni and Naturitalia), from this year finally
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Figures released by Istat for retail sales in March show a trend increase in value of +5.8%, matched by a decline in volume of -2.9%; read more

One disaster after another in the Ravenna area and the alarm does not cease because new, intense rainfall is expected in the coming days. Hydrogeological instability is dragging behind orchards, vineyards and arable fields on the hillsides surrounding the valleys of the flooded rivers and streams: Senio,
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After the 'counter-crisis' jolts over the staggered Easter weeks between 2023 and 2022, in week 16 sales of Lcc and fruit and vegetables by imposed weight started to grow again, albeit with a performance gap still clearly in favour of Lcc. In fruit and vegetables
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Communicate well to grow better. This was the aim of the workshop 'The successful communication of Italian PDO PGI fruit and vegetables' held at Macfrut 2023, organised by ISMEA in cooperation with Origin Italia within the National Rural Network. read more

A well-established market, with increasing demand and great potential: this is the gentilina lettuce, a type that is among the most appreciated also by the large-scale retail trade, as it lends itself well to various uses, from fresh to fourth range; read more

The blueberry was a major player at Macfrut 2023 thanks to the International Blueberry Days where the world of the blueberry and the importance of technological innovation for market growth was analysed; read more

I could start this commentary on Macfrut 2023 by rattling off all the record-breaking figures of this edition, but I think it is fairer to emphasise that what we experienced last week was certainly the result of teamwork on the part of the supply chain, as the President himself pointed out.
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As of 1 May 2023, Dr Maurizio Bottura is the new manager of the Technology Transfer Centre of the Edmund Mach Foundation. The appointment was unanimously resolved at the last meeting of the Board of Directors, which assigned the term of office to
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More than one in three Italians dream of a future as a farmer for their child, an increase of 22% compared to ten years ago, driven by the new common belief that the countryside can now offer quality of life but also create employment and growth opportunities
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