We have now entered the month of May ten days ago, but the temperatures, at least in northern Italy, do not seem to have fully noticed. Fortunately, for vegetable consumption little has changed and there is still a fair amount of movement in the market. To tell us
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"It's Chiquita o'clock' is Chiquita's spring-summer campaign, a new limited-edition series of the iconic Blue Sticker that this time celebrates the versatility of the banana, through 3 different stickers, each dedicated to a specific time of day
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Tasting a tomato and expressing a judgement seems a simple act, in some ways trivial, but if the comparison is between professionals in the sector and simple consumers, one notices even substantial differences, even if the parameters are the same, and although the analysis simplifies the perception
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The Cesena Agricultural Cooperative (Cac) blew out 75 candles this year with a big celebration held on Sunday 7 May at the Ordinary General Meeting of Members. The company, a world leader in the seed sector, recalled its achievements in the presence of 800
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More than 100 million have been made available by the Mit and will be used to finance urgent interventions in five Italian regions. This was announced by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister Matteo Salvini, who chaired the steering committee on the water crisis. The initiative of the Porta Pia ministry -
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After days in which everything has been said and written about, it is necessary to proceed with due calm to a serious reflection on what has happened (click here to read the IFN article), both to understand the reasons, and to better proceed in the future to heal the current wounds and to prevent
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April brought with it more rain than expected, with thunderstorms and heavy rainfall starting in the second week of the month. Towards the end of the month, on the morning of the 25th, a heavy hailstorm compromised much of the crops already in the field,
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It's official: the autumn 2024 Conference of the World Union of Wholesale (WUWM) will take place in Rimini; read more

Transparency and convenience are the strengths of the new packaging designed by New Factor for its dried fruit references, including shelled walnuts, pine nuts, almonds, goji berries, cashews, grains and other references. read more

Consumers are increasingly demanding sustainable and natural production from agriculture, minimising the use of pesticides. Not an easy challenge also due to climate change that favours the proliferation of various pest species native to the area
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The Alce Nero range of fresh soups (click to learn more) welcomes a new reference with the arrival of summer. Fruit of the collaboration with Chef Simone Salvini, a great master and interpreter of vegetarian, vegan and Ayurvedic cuisine. Thus was born the new Zuppa con Fave e Cime di
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Zerbinati,Italy's leading producer of fresh vegetables and tasty ready meals, presents a series of references perfect for the summer season: a meal ready in 3 minutes without ever giving up the taste and all the nutritional characteristics of fresh ingredients and
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'Bringing beauty into the packaging industry is possible and linen proves it'. The words of Pierluigi Fusco Giraud, managing director of Linificio e Canapificio nazionale (Marzotto Group), resounded in an attentive hall, that of the Congress Centre of the Grand Hotel in
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The packaging regulation is becoming a central issue for all links in the supply chain and was also discussed extensively at Think Fresh last week (Click here to read the article). As Coldiretti and La Stampa report, the EU regulation threatens to make the packaging industry disappear.
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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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