Hungarian raspberry cultivation, does it have a future at all?

Hungary was one of the most important European raspberry exporting countries in the 1980s. Unfortunately, the world has turned around since then. Over the past thirty years, Hungarian raspberry cultivation has shriveled, we have become net importers, and most of our domestic consumption is met from abroad. According to Tibor Megyery, author of the trade magazine Kertészet és Szőlzesz, the drastic decline can be traced back to six main reasons. These are worth exploring. Due to global climate change, the productivity of traditional raspberry varieties has decreased. In the absence of a modern irrigation system, it is not worth planting plantations. Although there are serious raspberry-growing regions south of us (Serbia and Kosovo), they are mainly mountainous areas with a cooler microclimate. Raspberry cultivation requires a lot of manual labor. Until the regime change, many people grew raspberries as a "second job", thus supplementing their annual income. During the season, ...