Hungarian sweet corn reaches almost all over the world

In recent years, sweet corn has been grown on an average of 30-34 thousand hectares in Hungary, it is the largest amount of industrial vegetables grown. Outstanding among the production areas, Hajdú-Bihar county has a production area of over 10 thousand hectares, but there are also plantations of thousands of hectares in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg, Bács-Kiskun, Békés, Csongrád and Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok counties. About 70 percent of the production area is irrigated, and super-sweet varieties are widespread, with 70 percent sown. This year, due to the spring drought and then heavy rains, the harvest is delayed by a week and a half, and less is expected from the second sowing. The overall picture will be able to be influenced somewhat by the presence of early frosts in the second half of autumn, damaging late varieties and second sowing. More than half of the annual average yield of 500-600 thousand tons is processed by the canning industry and a third by the refrigeration industry. In ...