Italy: Growing quantities of hazelnuts, but the economic crisis and drought weigh on

Published Oct 19, 2022

Tridge summary

Italian hazelnut production is expected to significantly increase for the 2022-2023 season, following a poor season due to frost in the 2021-2022 campaign. However, the industry faces challenges such as increasing production costs, parasitic attacks, and a decrease in the number of molecules available for phytosanitary defense, with concerns over a proposed regulation on the sustainable use of pesticides. Despite the quality of the hazelnuts and increased production, sales prices are falling, and there is agreement among Italian trade unions, Confagricoltura and CIA, on the need to address these issues by controlling prices at the source, combating climate change, and promoting Italian hazelnuts.

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After a 2021-2022 campaign to forget, in which production, due to frosts, reached one of the worst levels in recent years, now the quantities of hazelnuts collected show a marked increase for most of the Italian regions. This is what emerged from the EU-Turkey annual meeting on hazelnuts in which Confagricoltura and CIA actively participated, illustrating the progress of the national sector. The forecasts for 2022-2023 bode well, with a production that could reach about 87 thousand tons, a figure still below the national average. The current campaign is also heavily conditioned by the anomalous climatic trend, characterized by prolonged drought and high temperatures. "However, there are problems - Gianluca Griseri, representative of Confagricoltura at the Mipaaf core table, highlighted in the speech - from the continuous increase in production costs to parasitic attacks, to the continuous reduction of molecules available for phytosanitary defense, up to the companies are very ...

Source: Cia