Cherry Times wishes you happy holidays and a happy New Year!

25 Dec 2023
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In this year's finale, the Cherry Times team would like to express its gratitude to all readers who have followed with interest our new adventure dedicated to the world of cherries and its supply chain.

We hope that our news has been useful for you in understanding and deepening your understanding of the wonderful world revolving around the fruit of paradise: the cherry.

Your growing interest has prompted us to pursue quality information and to maintain the high standard of the content offered to you on a daily basis.

Thanks to this, we are heading towards 2024 with an increasingly established identity and a growing, professional and international readership.

Thanks are also due to our Technical-Scientific Committee, composto da Stefano Lugli, Luigi Catalano, José Quero Garcia, Donato Gerin, Gregory Lang, Brunella Morandi, Alessandro Palmieri, Tommaso Pantezzi e Juan Pablo Zoffoli.

Finally, thanks also to our sponsors who chose us as their communication partner: Unitec, Icoel, Tomra, Vivai Spinelli, Giacovelli, Battistini Vivai, Top Plant Vivai, Danese S.r.l, Salvi Vivai, Mazzoni Vivai, Arrigoni SPA.

Thank you for choosing us as your preferred source of information. Cherry Times wishes you happy holidays and a happy new year!

2023 highlights

Here are some of the most read articles and categories in this 2023

  1. Royal Helen: the faires of them all
  2. In its own small way... in cherry orchads, Piedmont invests big!
  3. Salvi Vivai enlarges its offer with 5 new cherry varieties
  4. New high-quality early varieties: the Meda® series
  1. Major cherry tree diseases and their sustainable management
  2. High temperatures inhibit the accumulation of anthocyanins in fruits
  3. Soon the cherry trees will be pruned by robots
  4. Amino acids can be used to make plants more resistant to waterlogging
  1. Giacovelli: new varieties and zero residue cherries
  2. What strategies to resist climate change? Álvaro Sepúlveda shares them with us
  3. Cherry crop increases in Türkiye while export tops 75.000 tons in 2023
  4. Dutoit leading the way to South Africa cherries around the globe
  1. With biodynamic Apofruit hits the formula between taste and sustainability
  2. Greenhouse farming technology and production of sweet cherries in greenhouses: a Chinese perspective
  3. Boni Silvano and Ezio: between varietal assortment and family management
  4. A US research center produces 83% of the cherries in the state of Michigan

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