Red orange consortium, away to harvest, is of excellent quality

The harvest of the blood orange of Sicily IGP will start tomorrow. Immediately before Christmas we will start with the Moro variety. From 2 January it will be the turn of the Tarocco and finally the Sanguinello, in the second half of February. "This year will be a campaign conditioned by the climate changes underway - says the president of the Orange Red PGI Consortium, Giovanni Selvaggi -. The fruits will tend to be smaller in size due to the particularly hot climate of the summer months. blood oranges are of excellent quality and will arrive on Italian tables already at Christmas "The Red Orange Consortium of Sicily has 45 thousand hectares planted with blood orange. The members are 450, of which 70 are packers, and boasts 52 products authorized to use the IGP brand. The provinces involved in the consortium are three: Catania, Syracuse and partly also Enna. The 2020 season closed with an increase of 26 thousand tons of Igp blood orange marketed compared to 19 thousand tons in 2019 and 17,200 tons in 2018.