date:Nov 15, 2016
s in a normal year, though this data is not certain as, despite the many requests for a census, Istat still has no way of knowing how many chestnuts are produced. Only the data concerning imports and exports is available. We know Italy is the biggest exporter of chestnuts and chestnut products, but we also know it exports more than it produces, as it imports volumes from Spain, Portugal, Greece and Turkey, which in turn import fruit from China.
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