The largest cherries in the world are grown in Italy; will the record stand in the new season?

Published 2024년 5월 24일

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Despite challenging spring weather conditions in 2024, cherry harvests have commenced, with social media posts showcasing productive trees and abundant cherry crops. The Rosso brothers from Italy are hoping to break a three-year-old record by growing the world's largest cherry, a feat they achieved in 2021 with a cherry that weighed 33.05 grams. This achievement, marked by the Guinness World Records, was made during a year when Italian cherry crops faced significant losses due to adverse weather. Italy, a key European Union cherry producer, concentrates its cherry cultivation primarily in Puglia, with significant presences in Campania, Emilia-Romagna, Veneto, and Lazio, spanning approximately 30,000 hectares.

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Despite the difficult weather conditions in the spring of 2024, the new cherry harvest has already begun in many countries. On social networks, gardeners publish photos of their trees and large cherries strewn with fruits. Will it be possible this season to break the record of brothers Alberto and Giuseppe Rosso from Italy, who grew a fruit weighing 33 grams? By the way, the record has stood for three years. The Rosso family has been growing cherries for about a hundred years. And in 2021, the brothers unveiled the world's largest cherry, weighing 33.05 grams, beating the previous record of 26.45 grams. The record was broken despite the fact that 2021 was a bad year for Italian cherries: one in four fruits died due to bad weather, Smartcherry reports. Read also: A giant onion weighing 8.97 kg broke a record at the exhibition “Over the past few years, we realized that our Carmen cherry is a Guinness World Record holder for its ...

Source: Eastfruit