The truth about the Hungarian peach has been revealed

Published 2024년 8월 23일

Tridge summary

The article provides an overview of the expected peach and nectarine harvest in Europe and Hungary, highlighting a potential increase in yield and production compared to the previous year. Despite the negative impacts of spring frosts, the peach harvest in Hungary is projected to see a significant increase, with a decrease in the cultivated area but a higher yield per hectare. The country's forecasted production is part of a larger European context, where other major producing countries like Spain, Italy, and Greece are also expected to see positive trends in their harvests. Additionally, the article discusses the pricing and trade dynamics for peaches and nectarines in Europe and Hungary, noting variations in price trends between countries and the challenges of maintaining a positive trade balance, as Hungary's imports exceeded exports in the first five months of the year.

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Original content

Nowadays, extreme weather conditions cause a significant problem in agriculture. The stocks were already two to three weeks earlier than usual in the spring, so the spring frosts caused considerable damage to the orchards, despite this, both the domestic and European peach harvest can bring good results this year. Based on the recently published report of the Agricultural Economics Institute (AKI), it can be said that peach picking was at 51.2 percent on July 16, and the yield average was around 10.8 tons/hectare, which is almost double last year's yield per hectare. In 2023, the nectarine and peach harvest was estimated at 13.80 thousand tons. According to the KSH data, the area under peach cultivation has decreased greatly in five years across the country, compared to 4.9 thousand hectares in 2018, farmers only produced 2.3 thousand hectares last year. As the Agricultural Sector wrote earlier, we can see excellent results in the field of apricots this year, the season started ...

Source: Agronaplo