Walnut production in Romagna, Italy is lower than in 2020 and prices are rising

Published 2021년 10월 18일

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The 2021 walnut harvest in Romagna is expected to yield lower quantities compared to the extraordinary 2020 harvest due to a less satisfactory fruit set. This, coupled with significant increases in raw material and energy costs, has led to a necessary price increase. Denis Fabbri, a walnut farmer, has had to raise prices due to the high cost of methane gas used for nut drying. He has also chosen to plant only the Chandler variety, which is preferred by his customers, despite the higher cost of this variety.

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The year of 2021 for the Romagna walnuts will be a lower year in terms of quantities than the, in many ways extraordinary, of 2020. However, now the attentions of walnut producers, as well as those of the entire agricultural sector, are concentrated on the increase dizzying prices of raw materials and energy, which inevitably force to revise the prices of agricultural products. To testify this situation is Denis Fabbri, owner of the Fabbri Denis farm in Forlì, returning from an extraordinary year like last year, where he collected 170 quintals of organic walnuts on his 5.5 hectare walnut grove, not yet completely in production. "We still have to complete the collection - explains Fabbri - but this year the quantities will be lower. It happens, in some agricultural years. More than in the drought, which can be overcome with irrigation, the problem of this year, in my opinion, was represented by a fruit set that was not entirely satisfactory, which generated a lower production. As ...

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