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MARKET GARDENING - the garden of excellence

območje : Verona
kategorija : practices concerning nature
The sector that makes the Verona area a true \"garden of wonders”. A combination of excellent quality and agricultural techniques wisely handed down over the centuries still today ensures the availability of a \"multi-coloured\" range of products, many of which are native to the area and retain all their uniqueness.
Verona is one of the most important fresh fruit and vegetable centres in Italy. This sector boasts several typical items – broccoli from Custoza, golden potatoes from Rovereto di Guà, violet asparagus from Arcole, celeriac – that enhance already impressive and extremely varied output: onions (90% of production on the Veneto), green beans, turnips, swedes, capsicum peppers, peas, leeks, beans, cabbage, courgettes, celery, shallots, pumpkin, Savoy cabbage, potatoes, red chicory (today with PGI mark), white and green asparagus. In the fruit sector, the province of Verona boats full-scale records as regards kiwi, apricots (from Val d’Illasi), apples, pears, peaches (today with PGI mark), cherries (Mora di Cazzano and Meraviglia dell’Alpone), melons, strawberries, chestnuts (San Zeno Brown Chestnuts PDO).
All pillars of an agriculture that has attained high quality levels and given rise to processing and sales companies, some of medium-large dimensions, of international repute. Vegetable production has generated activities of considerable interest in terms of income and employment, many of which have quality certifications ensuring outlet on the most important international markets.
Fruit output is equally prominent and has encouraged the development of allied business focusing on the production of preserves, jam and marmalade, compote and mousse. Companies have also emerged in upline sectors such as structures-facilities, greenhouses and premises.
The Veronese fruit and vegetable system is also characterised by a well-developed commercial and logistics “vocation”, thanks to an extensive network of private sector dealers working as the primary mediators with markets in Northern Europe. Yet that’s not all: Verona is home not only to the largest Agro-Foods Centre, a major investment in logistics and enormously successful terminal for exports of typical local produce, but also since 1954 (the year it was founded by Professor Giorgio Bargioni) to the Experimental Institute of Fruit-growing, where research and experimental activity prevalently targets the improvement of crop-growing techniques.
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