Excellence and territory. These are the treasures we stand on in Italy, especially in a region like Sicily, which boasts gastronomic specialties and products recognized worldwide. Like the pistachio.
It was the Arabs who began cultivating it in the 9th-11th century, spreading it to the shallow, calcareous soils that are quite common in the hilly inland areas of the territories of Agrigento and Caltanissetta, that is, the territories of the Pistacchio di Raffadali DOP.
The European Commission granted the Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) status in March 2021, and the Protection Consortium was established in December 2023, which now includes 18 members, including producers and packagers.
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A thousand-year-old fruit with a history that has tied it to Sicily for centuries, yet it lives firmly in the present and has recently taken a leap into the future.
The Raffadali Pistachio DOP is the first product among the Protected Designation of Origin nuts to have adopted the Digital Passport tool. This project, born from the partnership between the Raffadali Pistachio DOP Protection Consortium , the Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, and CSQA Certificazioni, provides a secure, personalized and unique label and a digital system of specific information.
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Source: Il Sole 24 Ore