Garlic, rainy May threatens the harvest
This year, the new garlic harvest is off to an uphill start in the Piacenza area. The heavy rains have in fact delayed the harvest and caused a higher percentage of waste. Francesco Delfanti,

Black Pearl made in Italy, commercial campaign starts
Perla Nera, the dark-skinned midi watermelon with few seeds, particularly sweet and crunchy, produced exclusively by O.P. Francescon, Peviani S.p.A. and O.P. La Mongolfiera, has just started its

Fruit and vegetables, need to lay the foundations for renewed competitiveness
The conference 'The fruit and vegetable sector: competitiveness, prospects and vision for the future' organised by Italia Ortofrutta - Unione Nazionale as part of its 54th annual assembly of its

Bejo introduces its new French cucumber Bejo 3670
Not to be missed, Bejo debuted at Infoagro with its latest novelties for the province of Almeria: the French cucumber Bejo 3670, highlighting its strong plant, dark colour and thorns, giving an

'Fruit and vegetables must become strategic again'
The perspective is the one we all hope for: "Italy must return to playing a strategic international role by creating virtuous synergies with developing countries". With these words, the Minister

Apulian apricots make their debut in wholesale markets
Although the unstable weather of the last few weeks does not suggest summer, inevitably, the summer season is just around the corner and the first fruits of the season are beginning to appear at

'Apricots, frost has burnt up to 80 per cent of the fruit'
Over the past few nights, frost has made itself felt on fruit and vegetable production in Emilia-Romagna. As we anticipated in our article (click here to read more), apricots and stone fruits in

French mushroom specialist invests in Ishida technology
An Ishida multihead weigher has enabled a French specialist mushroom and vegetable supplier to optimise the packing of its new pan-fried range, significantly increasing production while reducing

Fruit and vegetable table, strategic plan needed
The consumption crisis, with the loss of 500,000 tonnes of purchases in 2022 compared to 2021, according to the Cso Italy report, labour shortages, drought, pathogens, and the costs of the green

Higher prices also for cucumbers in Poland
Prices for greenhouse cucumbers imported from Spain have jumped sharply. This is the result of the collapse of the weather on the Iberian Peninsula, through which the winter weather front Filomena