Apricot tree from Scillato
Product included in the national list of traditional agri-food products (PAT)
PAT type: Vegetable products in their natural state or processed
Production area: Scillato
Technical data sheet of the traditional agri-food product (PAT)
Territory interested in production: Scillato.
Brief description of the product: Spherical fruit, “apricot” color, juicy, soft, particularly fragrant pulp, medium size.
Description of the processing and maturing methods: Irrigation May / October with water from the Agnello and Gulfone springs.
Specific materials and equipment used for preparation and conditioning: No further operations are carried out after the harvest, which takes place in the first two decades of June.
Description of the processing, storage and maturing rooms: No further post-collection operations are performed.
Elements proving that the methodologies have been practiced in a homogeneous way and according to traditional rules for a period of not less than 25 years: The age of the orchards and the documentation relating to the distribution of irrigation shifts of the waters of the springs
Source Pat Cards: Sicily Region
Card insertion: Ignazio Caloggero
Information contributions: Web, Region of Sicily
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