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Chiquita chooses Sicily for the first banana plantation made in Italy

By: Giorgio dell'Orefice

Who would have ever imagined the possibility of seeing banana production in the centre of the Mediterranean? Instead, it is the new milestone reached on the front of the progressive tropicalisation of the climate.

For some time now, news has been bouncing around of farms investing in tropical crops, particularly in the south of Italy, from avocados to mangoes. But this time we are not in the presence of an experimental attempt by farms seeking to diversify production, but the descent into the field of a top producer of tropical fruit.

Source: https://en.ilsole24ore.com

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