An indistinct noise, heard in the middle of the night, probably one of the many that come from the countryside. But no: what the parents of a farmer from Quistello, in the province of Mantua, heard was something much worse. In the farm shed in Via Donismondi, in the night
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Esselungaarchives another year of growth, ending 2022 with revenues up 3.2% to 8.83 billion, with an acceleration in the second half of the year indicating +6.7%; read more

'Amazing result, we are at the end of a season that is drawing to a close,' says Salvatore Daino, President of the Consorzio di Tutela Arancia di Ribera D.O.P; read more

The debut of the Emilian event confirms the fair enthusiasm rediscovered after the pandemic period. The first day got off to a fast start, and already from the first rows at the entrance the excitement of getting into the heart of the food world was evident... where fruit and vegetables did not shy away. The
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Times are running and besides talking about changing opening hours, wholesale markets also have to deal with online. Who said, in fact, that food centres have to be only physical? The turning point comes from Spain, where it was decided to create an
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International Blueberry Days will open with a preview at the Università Politecnica delle Marche in Ancona on Tuesday 2 May. It is called Blueberry School, a full day reserved for young researchers and technicians on the main scientific topics of the blueberry: genetics, nursery,
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Packaging is becoming increasingly important for the presentation of a product, which is why nothing should be left to chance, not even the choice of packaging machine. read more

In agriculture, communicating content, without falling back into the classic 'bucolic' rhetoric aimed at giving a benevolent but superficial image of the farming world, seems to be a mission impossible, and often the culprits are the farmers themselves who are not very inclined to tell the world
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Italy enters the last quarter of the strawberry campaign. A year which, as in other production areas of the Mediterranean Arc, was characterised by high temperatures. This situation did not affect the production and commercial development of Inspire, which belongs to the
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The Signor Datterino project developed by Bayer through its Vegetables division was created with the aim of satisfying the growing consumer demand for quality in the production chain through one of the most widely used products in Italian cuisine: the date tomato. read more

After the apprehension that characterised the beginning of the week in the north (for more information click here), the mercury dropped well below freezing in the south last night, creating quite a few worries among farmers. read more

Paolo Bruni, president of CSO Italy, and Adriano Aldrovandi, president of AOP UNAPera (in the opening photo), spoke this morning at the conference 'Fruit Growing: the point of the situation' held at Cibus Connect in Parma on the initiative of Coldiretti Emilia Romagna, together with
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It is a slow trend that characterises the sales on the wholesale markets in this last period. From the fruit and vegetable market of Trieste(Moi), we took stock with Renato Guercio, owner together with his brother of the company Solagro. read more

Everyone to hoe, arms are needed to give back to agriculture. And soColdiretti Toscana goes on the hunt for pensioners, students, the unemployed, recipients of various supports - Naspi, citizenship income, social shock absorbers - and even prisoners admitted to work outside. Why
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The road is barred to synthetic food made from bioreactors. Food and feed operators will be prohibited from using 'food or feed consisting of, isolated from, or produced from cell cultures or tissues derived from vertebrate animals'. Not
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2022 has been a year fraught with instability, both on the economic side, given the high inflation and autarkic drives of many nation states, but also on the geopolitical and environmental side. We are suffering the effects of climate change, which also affects our
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It is still an uncertain campaign for melons. While last year ended on an optimistic note due to the quotations obtained and the high temperatures that favoured consumption, this year the scenario that emerges is that of a slight drop in areas, according to the
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The Apulian organic asparagus season is struggling to get off the ground due to a fluctuating weather pattern, which in the space of a very short time has alternated between high temperatures and frost, leaving heavy damage in the countryside. At the same time, the first asparagus harvests are reaching quotations
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Wholesale markets enjoyed brief flashes of enthusiasm, due to seasonal novelties, as was the case for green beans, broad beans and peas. Enthusiasm that lasted too short and did not benefit the wholesalers. "The new references arouse curiosity in buyers but it is a
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It is one of the latest Compagnia Italiana branded products: Tempeh marinated in teriyaki sauce; read more