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Solagri lemon and orange plantation, Sorrento

Solagri is a cooperative and was founded in 1994 by Mariano Valentino Vinaccia, the present Chairman, with the objective of saving the "oval Sorrentine Lemon"from extinction, exploiting its typical nature and reviving its production. Today Solagri consists of more than 300 fruit farms.
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Orange flavoured oil

Orange flavoured oil

Seasoning based on extra-virgin olive oil flavoured with Sorrentine lemons PGI. Especially recommended for dressing Mediterranean salads...
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Solagri's products
 
Solagri's main product is the "Sorrentine oval lemon PGI". The taste for lemons is ancient and common to many people the world over. The uses made of this fruit are infinite: from fish, vegetables, fruit salads, or rice seasoned with lemon to the uses made of it in cakes, biscuits, puddings and ice-creams. The Sorrentine oval lemons are particularly aromatic and perfumed and so they make every dish more special, filling it with flavour...
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Island of Capri

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Cooperativa Solagri's mission
Solagri's first objective is to commercialise the oval lemon with European Union Protected Geographical Indication status that is produced by its associated fruit farms in Sorrento's hinterland and on the island of Capri.
Secondly, Solagri works to revive the traditional cultivation techniques of Sorrento gardens, avoiding the use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides in order to restore biological balance to the plants. Thus we return the lustre to this fruit of fundamental dietary importance and irreplaceable flavour.
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Sorrentine lemons

The Sorrentine lemon has a "Protected Geographical Indication"

The cultivation of lemons on the Sorrentine Peninsula has thousands of years of history. Here is a widely grown cultivar that takes the name of the area: Sorrento's "common oval Femminello lemon", a lemon citrine yellow in colour, with a skin of medium thickness, rich inessential oils, with a strong, intense aroma and perfume and full of juice. The presence of the lemons in the whole coastal area of Campania has been recorded since time immemorial. Splendid lemon trees are depicted in paintings and mosaics that came to light during the excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum, cities destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. They continued cultivating lemons in Medieval times and ...
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Protected Indication Protected Geographical Indication Organic Agriculture Protected Denomination Food and Agricultural Certification

The Sorrentine lemon has a "Protected Geographical Indication"

Protected Geographical Indication

Organic Agriculture

Registered Denomination of Origin

IS.ME.CERT. Food and Agricultural Certification

 
       
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Solagri Cooperative Sorrento Solagri s.c.
A cooperative society of producers on the Sorrentine Peninsula and the island of Capri
Via San Martino, 8 - 80065 - Sant' Agnello di Sorrento (NA) Italia
P. IVA 01469621211 - Tel. +39 081 8772901 - Fax + 39 081 8772776
www.solagri.it  - info@solagri.it
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