Italy: Salads collapse, grapes in depression

After Red October (in terms of company balance sheets), a slight optimism is blowing in the wholesale markets. “Finally the cold” tell wholesalers who want to sell seasonal products. The heat has done a lot of harm (commercially) to the chestnuts, for the grapes there is talk of depression, they start selling citrus fruits but the excellent campaign of South African competition continues. Collapsed prices of salads that can be bought for a few cents, zucchini goes up again. Bad season for chestnuts Stefano Cavaglià, president of Fedagro Piemonte, has no doubts about the product that was negatively affected by the hot autumn: "There has been a lot of talk about chestnuts, in fact it is a bad season from a commercial point of view. Little sale plus quality problems. The heat also affected consumption and production in Piedmont. We had chestnuts from September with 40 degrees and these temperatures lasted a long time, too long. We see Piedmont origin, now there is a chestnut from ...