Italian apples are recovering, but the countryside is difficult

The 2022-23 commercial campaign for Italian apples promises to be anything but simple. This is stated by the Ismea November 2022 focus, which raises the price increases as the first critical issue. Proven producers and other critical issues “The fruit growers – reads the report – have had to deal with the increase in costs, often in the triple digits, of many of the means they use for cultivation, such as fertilizers, diesel and electricity. And it is precisely the increase in the price of energy products that puts a strain on the economic sustainability of the activities of the POs and other companies that preserve, condition and package fruit". The second disturbing element is logistics, and more generally trade between Italy and non-EU countries due to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Furthermore, it is necessary to deal with the weakness of the euro against the US dollar: if on the one hand it makes exports of European products more competitive, on the other it continues to ...