Hungary: A fall in paprika production

Published 2021년 2월 3일

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Hungary's pepper market is facing a significant challenge due to the import of large quantities of chilli from countries like China, the Netherlands, and Spain. Despite maintaining a strong position in the market in terms of value, the country is losing out on quantity. The export of pepper, particularly ground pellets, to Germany and Poland has seen growth, but imports account for half of the market. The average import price is much lower than the export price, leading to domestic peppers being pushed out of the domestic market. Despite this, Zoltán Rambala, a pepper grower in Kisszállás, finds the work profitable and believes that consumers should have access to fresh Hungarian peppers.

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In terms of value, we are still winning the market battle, but in terms of quantity, we are already losing out on the impossibly cheap imports of chilli from China, the Netherlands and Spain. Absurd numbers follow. Apart from garlic, there is hardly any other Hungarian spice that characterizes Hungarian gastronomy as much as pepper (originally from Central and North America). Although it still retains respect for tradition as a Hungarian product, as a commercial product there is hardly a long-term future for the increasingly curious domestic commodity. As can be seen from the table below, foreign trade in sweet peppers is not bad for the economy. The volume of flour exports in the first 10 months of last year increased slightly (by 2%), but nicely: export sales also increased by 11%. Development of our pepper exports between January and October 2020 In the first 10 months of last year, the export of ground pellets accounted for 37% of customers in the German market. In addition, ...

Source: Agraragazat