by Vilenia | May 21, 2015 | Market
The ancient art of making pasta from durum wheat semolina has a very long tradition in Gragnano. The history of pasta on the “magic” hill of this little town, very close to Naples, started more than 500 years ago. This story begins around the middle of the...
by Vilenia | May 12, 2015 | Market
Early prospects point to a likely decline of 1.5 percent in global cereal production in 2015 from the previous year’s record. Based on the conditions of crops already in the ground and on planting intentions for those still to be sown, and assuming normal...
by Vilenia | Apr 14, 2015 | History
….Chinese? Arab? Italian? The dispute over who really has the right to declare himself “inventor” of pasta is ancient. It all depends on what you mean talking about pasta. Dried pasta like spaghetti, pasta made by combining water and cereal flour or...
by Vilenia | Apr 12, 2015 | Market
Wheat production is concentrated in a few countries, even if wheat plant is very robust and can adapt to a quite different environmental conditions. The most suitable environments for its growth are those with temperate climates and with rainfalls between 400 and 900...
by Vilenia | Apr 4, 2015 | Market
What are the main wheat producing countries in the world? Everybody, once in a lifetime, has wondered it. Generally, we can say that wheat does grow all over the world. The main producers are the European Union, China, India, the United States, Russia, Canada,...