More and more imports of garlic in Hungary

Published 2021년 11월 25일

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Garlic cultivation in Hungary has seen a significant decline, with a 27% reduction in harvested area in 2020. Consequently, imports have made up 12-40% of the domestic production in the last three years, primarily from Spain and the Netherlands. Despite this, Hungary's garlic exports, mainly to neighboring countries, increased by 5% to 434 tons in the first eight months of 2021. The European Union, which produced around 400,000 tonnes of garlic in 2020, saw a 5% increase in imports in the same period. However, exports fell by 32% due to factors such as container shortages, increased sea freight rates, and port closures related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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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 ...

Source: Trademagazin