Italian pomegranate season in the starting blocks

The first Italian pomegranates of the Lome Super Fruit brand will be available from week 36. "We will deliver the first pomegranates of the Shany and Emek varieties from Monday 6 September. For two years now, these varieties allow us to start the season a little earlier, in waiting for the Ako cultivar. And then the season will pick up steam with the Wonderful pomegranate, which we can offer until the end of March," sums up Dario De Lisi, sales manager at Masseria Fruttirossi. "We have about 30 hectares of early varieties, the harvest of which will start in the middle of next week. We will be able to guarantee the markets uninterrupted fresh pomegranates with the right degree of ripeness. It looks like we will sell twice as many pomegranates this year as last year. In the last few days, just before picking, the pomegranates still grow slightly, increase their Brix value a bit and they also show a nice color." Pomegranate of the Shany variety "The early awakening of the plants, ...