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The best of the species can sell for around 拢10,000 a kilo. One single white aromatic piece once fetched 拢165,000. We鈥檙e talking, of course, about truffles. It used to be pigs which sniffed out this costly fungi. But now, specially trained dogs are favoured by the serious truffle-hunter. But beware! It鈥檚 a cut-throat business, as Dany Mitzman found out in Northern Italy.

First broadcast on From Our Own Correspondent, 26 January 2017.