
If the outlook is confirmed, Campania would achieve a productive recovery about 67.5% of the regional productive potential, which is between 400 thousand and 450 thousand quintals of the early 2000s.
Chestnuts are sent mainly by sea, because of the cost of transport, but during holiday times the request by air is growing. By sea chestnuts take about 15-18 days to reach destination. By air they arrive at their destination after 3 days.
Chestnuts sent to the US by DHL Global Forwarding are subjected to an antiparasitic fumigation process to preserve the quality of the product: a process that uses products that are not harmful to human health and that preserves all the organoleptic qualities of the chestnut. The procedure is also essential to comply with the strict regulations in terms of imports of food by the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA), to prevent the spread of parasitic germs and bacteria from other countries.