Italy: Chestnut from Monte Amiata Igp, price at 1.50 euros per kilo?

From a production point of view, an excellent vintage is also looming for the Chestnut of Monte Amiata Igp, as in much of Italy. Precisely this situation, however, could generate price problems, with prices pushed downwards. Confirming these fears is among others Andrea Ulivieri, owner of the Perelle company in Castel del Piano (Grosseto). Ulivieri, who has started the harvest in these days, explains: “The countryside looks very good. As far as we are concerned, the characteristics of the soil on which I am located have preserved the plants even during the great heat of last summer. The curls are therefore abundant and also the size is excellent: the first ones I collected are 79 per kilo, which is very good in this respect ". Even with the problem of the Chinese wasp it is going much better. “The wasp is still present - explains Ulivieri - but the plants are adapting. I have never believed too much in the launches of the antagonist insect; rather, in my opinion there was just a ...