PLUM TREE GROWING IN ITALY. STUDIES AND RESEARCHES.

The growing of the different kinds of Prunus domestica doesn’t have, in Italy, so great importance as that of other fruit species.
So the production of plums in 1966 has only been of 1,400,000 quintals corresponding to 2.30% of the whole Italian fruit production which, in the same year, has been of 92 millions of quintals.
The following table, in which are exposed the figures of the fruit production for 1966 and their increments compared to those of the 1934–1939 period, emphasizes it clearly.

Fruit production in Italy

(millions of quintals)

Fruit

Mean    1931–1939

1966

Increasement from 1934–1939 (%)

Apple	2,883	25,844	89.6 %
Pear	1,971	12,492	63.3 %
Peach	2,313	14,234	61.5 %
Cherry	868	2,264	2.6 %
Apricot	252	770	3.05 %
Plum	516	1,400	2.71 %
Fig	3,062	2,414	0.78 %
Table grapes	1,200	8,583	7.15 %
Almond	1,084	2,369	2,18 %
Nut	480	704	1.46 %
Hazel	218	725	3.32 %
Cirtus	7,058	20,291	2.87 %
Total	21,905	92,089

Symposium of Working Group on Plum Genetics and Plum Breeding

A. MORETTINI

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.1968.10.3