"The Ministry of Agriculture has earmarked EUR 100 million for compensation for agricultural companies and a further EUR 75 million from the innovation fund for the purchase of machinery for damaged companies.   read more

The climatic events that hit Emilia-Romagna jeopardise the leadership position of the Italian seed sector, second in production at European level and among the top producers in the world. We hope that the government can implement all possible measures in favour of
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More than half of the crops of the Cooperative Farmers' Cooperatives (Cab) in the province of Ravenna are submerged by the flood, a total of more than 6 thousand hectares, or 60 square kilometres. An extension of which it is difficult to give an idea: to make a comparison, it is almost
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What if Disney princesses came to promote fruit and vegetables? read more

Bad weather is affecting crops in Lazio these days and future harvests are at risk; read more

Dear Editor, reading the article in your paper about the relationship between producers and large-scale organised distribution (to read the full article click here) has 'intoxicated my day' as we say down home. As you well know, we farmers have a particular sensitivity
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Will our sector be able to stem the invasion of new vegetable-based service products that the market proposes in the large-scale distribution channels (not forgetting Ho.re.ca.) within the other fresh departments? read more

AgriPeppe, a fruit and vegetable cooperative in Fondi, starts the tomato season with a wide offer and a range structured to satisfy the entire supply chain. read more

Ikn Italy announces the 23rd edition of Forum Retail, the largest technology networking hub for the retail community, which confirms the formula adopted in recent years: two appointments are scheduled during 2023 - 7 June and 26 October - aimed at facilitating networking,
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Too much water after a mild winter, which did not strengthen the fruit. It is the perfect storm that has hit the fruit that heralds summer in Campania: the cherry. This was announced by Coldiretti Campania, in light of the survey carried out in the region. The cherries are
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It is a good period for sales of courgettes and green beans, as told to IFN by Sergio Clemente, an operator at the Agribologna stand at Caab (Centro Agro Alimentare di Bologna), a market that is recovering after the flood that heavily affected the Emilia-Romagna region,
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The flood devastated more than 5 thousand farms and livestock holdings in one of the most agricultural areas of the country with a gross saleable production in Romagna of about 1.5 billion euro per year that multiplies along the supply chain thanks to a cutting-edge, private and cooperative induced activity,
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"What is needed now is immediate action to allow the agricultural sector to repair the damage and restart. Every minute counts'. This is how Gennaro Velardo, President of the National Union of Italian Fruit and Vegetables, addresses the government, urging measures that can incentivise
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"Give instructions to the peripheral structures of the Regional Department of Agriculture to carry out an immediate and punctual survey of the actual damages suffered by the enterprises and activate all legislative measures and funds for the reparation of damages, from the new measures
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From orange peels come lamps. It's not science fiction but just the intuition of the Milanese design studio Krill Design that transforms waste into new products thanks to an innovative process of valorisation. read more

The disastrous weather conditions of recent weeks, with constant rainfall and peaks of humidity, have created fertile ground for the proliferation of downy mildew. In recent seasons, with the dry months of April and May, the development of the disease had been very limited. But in the
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They are at the heart of it: the farmers and farmwives of the Vinschgau. They have forged themselves, generation after generation, overcoming the challenges of mountain apple growing. Passionate, determined, competitive, proud. It is due first and foremost to them that VIP can offer, on the markets of the middle
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Etna once again put on a show this year with a strong eruption followed by a shower of ash that covered the Etnean hinterland. Loud rumblings and a dense cloud enveloped the volcano from last Sunday; a cloud that, shortly afterwards, turned into a battering
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The flood that hit the Emilia-Romagna region hard last week did not leave Maap, the Padua Food Market, indifferent, as it donated two tonnes of fruit and vegetables to Russi, a small municipality of 12,000 inhabitants in Ravenna, which distributed the produce among the
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Conad Nord Ovest and Conad Centro Nord have established a company that will manage logistics and transport for the entire sales network in the Emilia area of the two cooperatives. It is called 'Emilog', the ambitious functional aggregation project to optimise activities
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