All Italy articles – Page 103
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ArticleItaly keeps hopes up
With a season that clashes with the peak of the Spanish season and the early UK crop, Italian berry producers generally struggle to send berries to the UK. But, with larger volumes available, there remains hope that exporters can find the odd niche to create demand for their fruit.
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ArticleItalian melon season extended
Italian producer Francescon has extended its melon season to sell fruit from April through to October.
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ArticleItaly makes a comeback
Horticulture has traditionally been an important aspect of Italy’s economy. Yet, in recent years the sector has been struggling in the face of strong competition from other Mediterranean countries, and farmgate prices are dangerously low. As Cesena gets ready to host the twenty-second annual Macfrut conference, all eyes are focused on the Far East, writes Elspeth Waters.
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ArticleWeather damage in Italy
Italian growers are reporting significant damage to stone fruit and pears following heavy rain and hail.
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ArticleItalian reinvention
Citrus production in Italy is facing tough times. The popularity of large parts of the Italian offer is apparently fading on the domestic market and there are plenty of other countries in the Mediterranean Basin with competitive citrus-growing industries all too eager to fill the gap. Kathy Hammond reports.
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Italians pack for snacks
FRUIT LOGISTICA: Italian producers were demonstrating a new snack pack of sliced apples and pears at Fruit Logistica last week.
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ArticleItaly on the rebound
As the largest producer of grapes in the world, you would expect Italy to have a huge presence on the UK market. But its share is a paltry five per cent compared to Spain’s 13 and Greece’s 11. Now the traditional Muscat vines are giving way to seedless strains, it could be time for an Italian comeback on the UK scene.
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Italians claim success in anti-fraud probe
Italian agriculture minister Gianni Alemanno has claimed that new anti-fraud controls put in place by the country’s government are protecting its growers.
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Italy unveils new produce fair
The Verona Exhibition Centre will play host to a brand new event on March 3-6, 2005.
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ArticleRationalisation and renewal in Italy
Italian co-operatives are meeting market needs through rationalisation and variety renewal, but how does that look from the UK perspective?Kathy Hammond talks to importers about this season and beyond as well as looking at emerging varieties and hearing from Italian exporters themselves.
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ArticleItalian kiwi growers shift focus
A leading kiwifruit importer forecasts a limited increase in Italian kiwifruit sales as producers shift their focus.
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Italy makes UK inroads
Usually thought of as a key source for apples into Germany, Italy nevertheless values its UK customers and supplies an increasing volume to these shores. Kathy Hammond looks at some of the developments in the Italian production scene.
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Italian cherry cheer
Volumes of Italian cherries are coming on stream from more northern regions as the calendar of supply moves up the peninsula and the season hits its peak.
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Italy battles drought
Drought warnings are in place in key growing areas in Italy as rivers and reservoirs fall to dangerously low levels and the lack of water threatens the viability crops.
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Major Italian organic alliance
Two major Italian groups have formed an alliance to provide large-scale supplies of organic fresh produce on an international basis.
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Italians tighten up laws
Italian labelling laws to tighten, to prohibit incorrect promotion of produce pedigree.
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Italians confront ash damage
talian producers are having a tough time with the elements as citrus producers in Sicily struggle with ash-damaged fruit and elsewhere growers of other lines deal with the cold and rising costs.
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Italian citrus decline
Producers' association Confagricoltura is forecasting a further reduction in the Italian citrus crop.
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Italians lose ground
Italian producers' organisation Confagricoltura has said that Italy is losing ground in Europe to other producer member states.
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Sugraone bound for Italy
Producers throughout Italy will have access to Sugraone grapevines from February, following the announcement that Vitroplant Vivai has been appointed to handle the variety in the country.