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

Prof. Giorgio Cantelli Forti was re-elected for a fourth consecutive term, by unanimous vote of the Academicians, as President of the National Academy of Agriculture for the three-year period 2022-2025. With this vote, Prof. Giorgio Cantelli Forti becomes the second President for
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Valfrutta is back in communication celebrating that 'unique, genuine, green and passionate' Italy that the brand wants to represent every day by bringing the excellence of our land to the tables of millions of Italians; read more

The benefits of eating vegetables are well known, but as of today, some vegetables are also of great interest for research. Based on a study by Osaka University, high levels of sulphur compounds (reactive polysulphides) were discovered in 22 different vegetables. read more

The Emilia Romagna PGI pear will also be present tomorrow at the fifth edition of the Arepo 'European event on Quality and Origin products' in Brussels, organised by Arepo, the association of European regions of origin, in the context of which the
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A new idea of orchards to combat the consequences of climate change, from extreme weather events to the loss of biodiversity and the water crisis. The researchers of DREAM (Diversified orchards for REsilient and sustAinable Mediterranean farming systems) are working on it,
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Late mandarins are coming to the end of a brilliant campaign, requests from the markets and large-scale retail trade are satisfactory and demand is steadily increasing, while the Easter exploit is awaited. This is how Paolo Scirè, owner of Canguretto Sas di
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Stone fruits are at a crossroads today. Despite the fact that these fruits are very popular with consumers, especially in the summer months, the dedicated areas are declining. read more