Quality, distinctiveness, and supply chains – the future of walnut in Emilia Romagna, Italy

Published Oct 8, 2021

Tridge summary

Emilia Romagna is emerging as a major hub for the nut industry in Italy, with a significant portion (30%) of the country's intensive plant cultivation. The region is focusing on enhancing nut supply chains to reduce import dependence, particularly for walnuts, hazelnuts, and peanuts. The In-Noce project is a notable initiative that has seen over twenty farms cultivating more than 500 hectares of walnuts, with support from the regional RDP. The region has also established an organic walnut supply chain, with plans to improve phytosanitary defense using alternative methods, as an absolute ban on mancozeb, a common pesticide, is expected from the EU in January 2022. Confagricoltura Emilia Romagna is actively working on mapping walnut plants across the region and updating specifications to permit greater use of copper for walnut bacteriosis control.

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Original content

The region is the locomotive of modern nociculture with 30% of the intensive plants in Italy. The conditions are in place for growing nut supply chains and reducing dependence on imports In the last twenty years, the annual consumption of walnuts in Italy has gone from 26 thousand to 63 thousand tons (of which 49 thousand imported), that of hazelnuts from 108 thousand to 187 thousand tons (of which 70 thousand imported). Farmers, agribusiness entrepreneurs and agro-industry players are now looking to Emilia Romagna for the planting of new plants. Alessandro Annibali, president of the nuts section of Confagricoltura Emilia Romagna and CEO of New Factor - leader together with the Agrintesa cooperative of the In-Noce project, took stock of the situation. In his speech at the 17th Giornata della Noce, at the San Martino di Forlì farm, he stressed that "Emilia Romagna is the locomotive of modern, irrigated and mechanized nociculture, with 30% of the intensive plants in Italy and a ...

Source: Agronotizie