Vegetable yield in Hungary is average this year, according to a FruitVeB expert

As last year, the FruitVeB Hungarian Fruit and Vegetable Interprofessional Organization and Product Council expects an average year in vegetable production this year as well. Ferenc Ledó, president of the organization, told MTI that this picture, based on current experience, could still significantly affect volumes in the next 2-3 months. This year, 80-83 thousand hectares of vegetables are grown in the open, and 3,500 hectares are sprouted. The average annual volume of Hungarian vegetable production is 1.6-1.8 million tons. Fresh market peppers, tomatoes and snake cucumbers are now produced 90 percent indoors (greenhouse or foil), so these crops are less affected by the weather, said the president of FruitVeB. According to Ferenc Ledó, among the plants produced specifically for the processing industry, the dominant crops in the production area in Hungary are green peas and sweet corn. The former shows a decrease of about 10 percent compared to the previous year, which means 16-17 ...