The apple crisis has hit Hungary, the market can no longer cope with more serious prices

In an average year, 600 thousand tons of apples are grown, while in a good vintage, 800-900 thousand tons of apples are grown in the country, of which usually one-third is table apples and two-thirds are industrial apples. About 140,000 tons of apples are needed to safely serve the domestic table apple market. Spring frosts are mainly responsible for the significant crop losses, while extreme rains in June and October and pre-harvest crop losses, which are mainly due to spring frosts, have resulted in a more qualitative rearrangement of table apples, said Ferenc Apáe, President of the Agricultural Sector. noted that due to the spring frosts and the cool weeks of June, apple ripening was 7-12 days slower than usual. In the industrial apple segment, the dominant share, 218 thousand tons, was represented by the purchase of concentrated apple juice by domestic breweries. In addition, about 22,000 tons of other processing industries can be purchased, and about 10,000 tons of industrial ...