Hungary: After serious losses, 2023 will not be a walking tour for animal breeders either

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Hungary

Published Jan 5, 2023

Tridge summary

2022 was one of the most difficult years for Hungarian agriculture, including livestock breeders. This year caused many surprises, twists, troubles and losses for producers, and it was not uncommon for someone to give up their activities for good. Historic droughts, floods, wars, crises, diseases, shortages - these all affected the farmers. It seems very likely that 2023 will not be a walking tour for producers either.

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From the summary of the Agricultural sector, we can get a more accurate picture of how the life of the actors in the sector has become more difficult month by month. They reported that they actually had to report new problems and difficulties month after month, week after week, day after day. Already at the beginning of the year, in January, the bird flu raged in our country, and then followed it throughout the year. The disease caused enormous damage, it appeared in Csengerújfalu in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county at the beginning of the year, and was detected by the National Food Chain Safety Office (Nébih) in a duck farm with 37,000 ducks. In the year 2022, until the end of May, Hungary's poultry meat production decreased by a total of 12% compared to the situation a year ago. Calculated in terms of live weight, the decrease in chicken was relatively modest, 3.3%, while in turkey, the product also increased minimally, by 2%, but a large drop was already measured in waterfowl, ...

Source: Magro