More health in the trolley of Italians despite price increases: compared to a year ago, they say they buy far more fruit, fresh vegetables and meat on the supermarket shelves, less liquor, wine and, in the case of families with children, even less fresh fish. Fresh food
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Yesterday, the Annual Meeting of Agrofarma - the national association of agropharmaceutical companies that is part of Federchimica - was held for the general renewal of offices. read more

Ortofrutta Italia, the Interprofessional Organisation of Italian Fruit and Vegetables, and AIAB, the Italian Association of Organic Agriculture, have signed a memorandum of understanding and operational collaboration aimed at promoting the development of organic fruit and vegetable supply chains; read more

The harvest of Umbrian melons cultivated under tunnels at Top Melon's Pantalla (Perugia) site has started these days. The first fruits present a high level of quality, even if the volumes are not the highest due to the climatic trend of the last period. read more

This year in the Granda region, pear production will collapse by up to 80% and 50% of cherries have already been lost, but the peach and apple sectors are also in difficulty. This is the alarm launched by Coldiretti Cuneo, according to which the main cause is to be found in the
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Veronamercatosince 2007 has been disseminating a food education project dedicated to the schools of Verona and its province to promote the consumption of fruit and vegetables among young people and make them aware of the benefits of a healthy, balanced diet. Since 2017 a
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I am aware that, when one ventures into making proposals that change the status quo, such as suggesting the minimum guaranteed Brix degree (to read the article click here), one has to take into account the 'resistance to change' that is typical of human 'conservative' behaviour,
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The project 'A healthier soil and a more virtuous production with Symbiotic Agriculture in the fruit sector', the first research experience by a PO on Symbiotic Agriculture, is now one year old.
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With regard to the Tea experimentation (click here to read more) we report the comments of the trade associations: Crea, Cia, Confagricoltura, Copagri, Alleanza Cooperative Agroalimentari e Cibo per la mente. read more

The Danila Bragantini Prize, the Oscar for innovation in the fruit and vegetable sector promoted for the fifth consecutive year by the National Association Le Donne dell'Ortofrutta and aimed at giving voice to female entrepreneurship in the sector, enters its final phase. The award is aimed at
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Along with watermelons, the melon is the undisputed king of the fruit and vegetable department in summer. Its presence is always noticeable, but this is often not enough to boost sales. What is needed, in fact, is a distribution policy that is reflected in a display capacity capable of attracting
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After the disaster in Romagna, we are witnessing many different forms of first aid solidarity towards the local populations that have experienced an unforeseeable tragedy of enormous proportions, with the agri-food sector brought to its knees. read more

'For the future we will learn to make less and better quality fruit and vegetables, for example by investing in greenhouse crops'. This is the admonition that comes fromRiccardo Pompei, the historic wholesale operator of Car in Rome. A reasoning, that of the wholesaler, which takes into account the difficult
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The apricot season is beginning in Calabria but, as yet, the effect of the fine weather is far away and both production and consumption volumes remain at a standstill. Analysing the current situation and prospects for the coming monthsNatalino Gallo, president of Op Agricor of
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The 2022 financial statements of Ri.Nova, a cooperative dedicated to innovation in agriculture, born from the merger of the Plant Production Research Centre and Alimos, were positive, closing with a profit for the year of 15,450 euro, which brought the net assets to over 2.6 million euro. The
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A basket with the products of Romagna agriculture saved from the flood, from salad to garlic, from radishes to artichokes, from cucumbers to asparagus, was handed over by Coldiretti farmers in Piazza Saffi in Forli to the President of the Republic Sergio
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Lidl Italia, the leading supermarket chain in the large-scale retail trade with 730 shops in the country, recently inaugurated its first store in Pietra Ligure (SV). In the presence of deputy mayor Daniele Rembado, the company cut the ribbon at the supermarket in Viale Riviera 490, near the schools
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The reduction of packaging waste is a 'shareable objective, but flexibility must be ensured in relation to the tools to achieve it and the efforts made by countries' such as Italy, a 'model of excellence in the management' of this type of waste. read more

The season for melons in Veneto is off to a bad start, strongly influenced by the rainy and cool May weather. The harvest, which began about ten days ago, has so far been unrewarding for producers, as prices until a few days ago ranged between 30 and 40
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75% of the under-35s habitually consume vegetable-based products and consider them sustainable. This is what emerges from an analysis conducted by the Vegetable-based Products Group of Unione Italiana Food in collaboration with AstraRicerche on the occasion of World Environment Day on
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