Despite slightly below-expected production, Italy has surpassed China and returned to being the second largest processing country for industrial tomatoes, behind only the United States.
This overtaking was primarily due to weather conditions, which drastically reduced the quantity of tomatoes destined for the processing market in China to just under five million tons, effectively less than half the previous year due to the torrential rains that hit production districts in 2025. In Italy, however, the nearly 78,700 hectares under cultivation allowed the processing season to close with a production of five million and eight hundred thousand tons of tomatoes, a slight increase compared to the previous year, but approximately ten percent below the planned level.
Title: Industrial tomato processing: Italy overtakes
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