The Wholesale Fruit and Vegetable Market of Milan is the biggest one in Italy as far as the quantity of marketed products is concerned (1,000,000 tons per year); it is marked by the extension of the range of products available all the year round and represents an important concentration element of the offer of fruit and vegetable products.

Commercialized in the Market is 10% of the goods that altogether pass through all the Italian fruit and vegetable markets in Italy.

The Market is positioned in the centre of North Italy and of the main routes of international transit.  Together with the wide range of products, available all the year, and the outstanding quality of the marketed products, it guarantees the Milanese Market leadership in the distribution of fruit and vegetable products in Italy and in other European countries.

Exports are equal to 300,000 tons of fruit and vegetables a year marketed by wholesalers with a sales point and by the export companies on the market.

As regards imports, the Milanese Market has a considerable function of redistribution of fruit and vegetables incoming from abroad, thus importing 26% of agricultural and food products.

Particular attention is given in the guaranteeing of both the traceability and the utmost safety of the marketed fruit and vegetable products, even by means of controls directly carried out by the operators of the HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) self-monitoring system.

Every day the Fruit and Vegetable Market is attended by 9,000 people, about one third of whom are employed at the Market itself.

The market is open for the public on Saturdays from 0900am to 12.00am