Italian grower and marketer Rago is launching a new tomato onto the UK market
Candy cherry tomatoes are the size of jelly beans and almost as sweet - brix levels are an impressive eight to 10. It is available in two colours - red and yellow and has performed very well in trials on the German market last year.
“The season runs from now until at least November,” explains the Rago Group’s Michael Earley. “And organic production will come on stream from August. Because of its sweetness and size it is an ideal fruit for children.”
Battaglia-based Rago, which is EurepGAP certified grows on some 150 hectares largely under plastic tunnels irrigated with fresh mineral water drawn from a deep underground lake below the farm. “In addition to giving the healthy benefit of products grown with fresh mineral water, because of the size of the water mass, we are not reliant on municipal water supply and are less prone to be affected by natural drought,” he said.
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