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This is the trademark that defines the products obtained with rigorous regulations on integrated production. The regulations regulate the characteristics of the farms, of the soils and of all the cultivation, protection and harvesting phases. This global approach to the quality of the product guarantees the final consumer that the productions are obtained respecting the environment, the producer’s health, hygiene, typicality and organoleptic properties.
The certification of the Health Project trademark means traceability, healthiness, product quality. Main point of the Health Project is the BabyFruit trademark which guarantees zero residue products.
The O.P. C.O.P. markets around 14.000 tons of peaches and nectarines from the IGP area. The IGP certification is delegated to the Consorzio di Tutela Pesca di Verona (Consortium for the Protection of the Peach of Verona).
Via Ca’ Nova Zampieri 15 -San Giovanni Lupatoto (VR)
tel 045 8750873
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e-mail: info@opconsorziopadano.it
Voluntary certifications
The O.P. C.O.P. directly intervenes in its own farms and associated cooperatives to obtain certifications such as the Euregap and Organic for European and extra-European countries.
The Ozark Gold, originally from Missouri (USA), started to spread around the 70s. It is a very interesting cultivar both for its productivity...
The Gala Group is a summer variety, originally from New Zealand. It has good organoleptic properties and is particularly interesting for the high productivity...
The Golden Delicious, originally from America, is the most common apple variety nowadays. Its shape is slightly conic and one of its main features...
Thanks to its green color, the Granny Smith is surely among the most recognizable varieties.
It was born in 1868 from a casual crossbreed in Australia...
The Imperatore apple, a national production, is easily recognizable for its smooth and waxy skin, its green color with bright red stripes...
The Fuji variety originally comes, as its name suggests, from Japan, where it is still quite common and appreciated. While in Japan its roots are ancient...
The Red Chief apple is considered the apple par excellence. Its red color, its long and narrow shape, and its five rounded tips make it, in the collective imaginary, the perfect apple...
The Williams pear, selected at the end of the 17th century in England, is the most commonly grown variety of pear in Italy. Roundish, pale-green to pale yellow with small lenticels...
The Conference pear is a cultivar originally from England, which spread in Italy starting from mid ‘900 and which has now reached excellent production levels especially in Emilia-Romagna and Veneto. The fruit is medium-sized, pyriform...
The Abate pear gets its name from the French monk who selected it around mid 1600. It is one of the most precious varieties and, among all, the longest and slightly crooked one...
The Kaiser pear, also known as Imperatore Alessandro, has French origins. It is easily recognizable for its regular shape and for its tobacco-colored and completely russeted skin. The flesh is white-yellowish...
The peach is a fruit which originally came from China, where it is still considered a symbol of immortality. It then reached Persia, country that lent the fruit its scientific name Prunus persica...
The nectarine, known in Italy as “pesca noce” (walnut peach) because of its completely smooth surface, finds its origin in the Persica Laevis, of the family of the Rosacee, Prunus genre...
Kiwi originally came from China and there, more than seven-hundred years ago, it was considered an excellence. At the beginning of the 20th century the fruit, whose scientific name is “Actinidia chinensis”, reached New Zealand where it is largely produced...
According to some studies, the asparagus spread in ancient times, from Mesopotamia and the area surrounding the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, to the most temperate regions. For a long time, it was mainly used for its medicinal and therapeutic properties...
The term asparagus comes from the Latin asparagus, which means bud. The Romans gave the plant this name for two reasons: first of all because the apical part of the bud is the only edible one...
The Castelfranco variegated radicchio differs from all the others for its leaves, whose shape recalls that of the rose petals. These leaves, large and slightly curled...
The Red Chioggia is certainly one of the best known varieties of radicchio and thanks to its ability to adapt to different climates and soils and its ability to keep, this radicchio has conquered...
The botanical name of the chicory spontaneous species is Chichorium Intubus.
The early radicchio, available from September, has long heads with tight, large and bright pink-colored leaves and a big white rib...
It seems to be a variety of the Red Treviso Radicchio, but shorter. It has a spheroidal shape, with red roundish leaves which in Autumn form a compact heart...