The weather this year was perfect for growing watermelons and melons in Hungary

Published 2024년 5월 31일

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Hungary has seen earlier crop developments in strawberries, cherries, and watermelons this year, with watermelons expected to appear in stores two weeks earlier than usual. Despite increased costs, particularly in consumables and labor, melon yields have remained stable as crop areas have halved. In fact, production area expansions are expected this year, with a predicted melon and watermelon yield of 140,000 to 160,000 tons. Hungarian melon farmers are motivating their development and investment in new technologies due to their competitive disadvantage in foreign markets, compared to producers from Italy, Spain, and Greece, which has led to the cultivation of new hybrids and more melon cultivation in tunnels.

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This year in Hungary, strawberry picking started two weeks earlier, and cherries ripen earlier. Farmers will harvest watermelons mass-grown in greenhouses two weeks earlier than usual, they will appear in stores from June 10. This is stated in the overview of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Netherlands. In the melon sector, as in the rest of the agricultural industry, costs have increased, primarily for consumables and labor. Cultivation techniques have also changed compared to previous decades, with crop area halving in the 2020s, but melon yields remaining roughly the same. Last year, the area of production areas began to increase again - from 2,600 hectares in 2022 to 2,900 hectares in 2023. This year, experts expect 140,000 to 160,000 tons of melons, of which 15,000 tons will be melons, and the rest will be watermelons. One of the factors that has stimulated the development and ...

Source: Agrotimes