German cabbage is pouring into Hungary, but then where does the domestic cabbage go?

The European Union harvests an average of 3.6-3.7 million tonnes of cabbage a year. Poles are the largest cabbage producers in the community, with yields ranging from 0.8 to 1.0 million tonnes in 2015-2020, accounting for about 27% of EU production. In Poland, cabbage production decreased by 13% in 2020 to 800 thousand tons. Experts say this year, due to unfavorable weather, they can harvest less quality and 700,000 tons of cabbage. In the Community's internal market, the largest exporter of head cabbage and red cabbage was the Netherlands, and the largest importer in 2020 was the Czech Republic. In the first half of this year, the Netherlands sold 41.1 thousand tonnes of headed cabbage on the EU market, similar to the previous year, while Germany increased its deliveries by 14% to 33.4 thousand tonnes and Poland by 3% to 14.9 thousand tonnes. The EU's foreign trade balance in head cabbage and red cabbage was negative in 2020, as exports increased to 37.9 thousand tonnes, while ...