Stone fruit producers in Emilia-Romagna have once again had to reckon with record-breaking frosts this year, which have wiped out a large part of their production. Temperatures plummeted to as low as -6° in the worst-hit areas, and photographs bear witness to what is
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It will be a very complex campaign for asparagus in 2023, due to the very late start. Apofruit, a fruit and vegetable cooperative with more than 2,700 members throughout Italy, takes stock of the situation in the aftermath of the marketing of the first quantities and
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Time for a balance sheet for the Arancia Rossa di Sicilia Igp Consortium. The president of the consortium, Gerardo Diana, assisted by deputies Elena Albertini and Salvatore Scrofani, presented the work carried out during the past year to the members' assembly. read more

If, last week, hail had whitened much of northern Italy (click here to read more), in recent days it has also arrived in the southern regions, leaving a trail of damage on both crops and civil infrastructures. The regions most affected were Puglia
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You might not think so, but inRomagna it is already strawberry time. The agricultural company Fabbridi Santarcangelo, a member of Agribologna, started picking the Joly variety at Easter and then continued with Tea, Sibilla and Elodì.
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Hidden inside mandarinio boxes inside mechanical false bottoms made in the bonnet of elegant cars or in the passenger compartment of mighty lorries. The cocaine passed through the Strait of Messina, from Reggio Calabria in the direction of Palermo, camouflaged in a variety of ways to escape detection.
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Coldiretti Puglia, on the basis of the Ismea report, states that citrus fruit prices in Taranto have plummeted by 48%, with the rising cost of the shopping cart and climate change decimating the harvests, while consumers have cut their purchases of
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How will the management of the fruit and vegetable department change in the future if the 'old' figure of the department manager, the one who knows the trade, trains new colleagues daily in the 'field', guides consumers daily in their purchases, is slowly disappearing? read more

A common front between the Region and producers in the fruit and vegetable sector in Emilia-Romagna to enhance the primary sector and cope with the climatic difficulties that have altered the results of field production, in a sector that is strategic from an economic and
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A joint event was held yesterday at the headquarters of BF Spa in Jolanda di Savoia, organised by BF - Italy's most important agro-industrial group - and SDF - an Italian multinational and world leader in the production of tractors, harvesting machines and diesel engines, to
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Brown rot (Stemphylium vesicarium) has severely tested northern Italian pear growers in recent years, causing extensive damage (with losses in some plants of close to 80-90%), especially in Abate Fétel, which, in addition to being the most widespread variety, has proved to be a
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The partnership between F.lli Orsero and Autogrill has been renewed, thanks to which, for the fourth consecutive year, the brand's Extra Premium fruit will be available in almost 200 Autogrill points of sale on motorways, in airports and in the main railway stations throughout Italy. read more

Although the unstable weather of the last few weeks does not hint at summer, inevitably, the warm season is at the starting line and the first fruits of the season are beginning to appear in the markets. read more

In the countryside with the arrival of summer there is a need for at least one hundred thousand to fill the labour shortage that hit agriculture hard last year with the significant loss of national harvests. This is what Coldiretti says in commenting on the statements of the
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Once again this year fruit and vegetable growers, particularly those in Emilia Romagna, are licking their wounds after the late frosts that mowed down the future harvests of entire farms. The umpteenth low blow that threatens to knock out thousands of fruit farms that in recent
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A British man's visit to the supermarket turned out to be really disturbing. As the man, Craig Harrison,opened a bag of bananas he had just bought in the British grocery shop Tesco, he noticed a giant female spider inside, along with her bag of eggs. "I was
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Small orchards are among the most complex crops from an agronomic point of view: atmospheric agents (rain, wind, hail, high insolation, etc.), combined with sudden changes in temperature, can have a decidedly negative effect on the productivity and efficiency of entire
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In March, the fruit and vegetable department of the large-scale retail trade still showed declining consumption across the different macro-categories, but the change in average prices showed a leap forward compared to February. Among the main products oranges, bananas, tomatoes and potatoes are those which
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The SmartProtect project is a thematic network focused on inter-regional knowledge sharing on SMART integrated management solutions for farmers and advisors.Its objective is to stimulate the flow of knowledge in regional AKIS (Agriculture
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