Walnuts, a normal year for Op "Il Noceto" in Italy

After the extraordinary year of 2020, it is time to take stock also for 2021 of the Op “Il Noceto” of Chiarano (Treviso), whose members work 460 hectares of Lara variety walnuts, 60% of which are already in production. Furthermore, just this year the Op has invested about 1 million euros "to be able to offer better product quality and more services to its customers". To take stock of the situation is Michele Sciannimanica, director of the Op, who explains: "This year the production is back to normal, around 30-32 quintals per hectare, with good quality but small sizes. This happened due to a sum of factors: first of all the frosts in April, then the cold in May which did not allow the fruit to swell particularly ”. At the moment, however, the prices remain good. "In terms of prices - continues Sciannimanica - we must say that fortunately we did not have the invasion of low-priced American products that occurred last year; Pecan nuts are reasonably priced. Rather, today the danger ...