More and more imports of garlic in Hungary

The area under garlic in Hungary has been steadily declining for years, with 27 percent less harvested in 2020 than a year earlier, agrarszektor.hu writes. Thus, the Hungarian supply has been supplemented by imports of 12–40 percent of the domestic crop in the last three years. In 2020, 68 percent (406 tons) of garlic arrived in Hungary from Spain and 106 percent (415.9 tons) from the Netherlands than in 2019. More and more garlic is coming from Spain and the Netherlands According to the data of the CSO, the area and yield of garlic show a decreasing trend: the yield was between 5.2 and 7.9 thousand tons in the last ten years, in 2020 5212 tons of garlic were harvested from 768 hectares, which was 27 percent less than a year earlier, according to AKI's latest report. Garlic is grown on the largest area (674 hectares) in Csongrád-Csanád county. According to CSO data, Hungary's foreign trade balance in garlic was negative in 2020. Supply has accounted for 12 to 40 percent of ...