Imported pepper is flowing into Hungary; you wouldn't guess where the best comes from

According to the KSH data, 90.61 thousand tons of peppers were harvested from 1.28 thousand hectares in Hungary in 2023, according to the latest report of the AKI. The export volume of green pepper decreased to 13.5 thousand tons (-28 percent) and the export value to 19.69 million euros (-34 percent) in the first nine months of 2024 compared to the same period of the previous year. At the same time, the volume of imports rose to 9.32 thousand tons (+34 percent), and their value to 14.75 million euros (+37 percent). The foreign trade assets of green peppers fell to 4.9 million euros from 19.1 million euros a year earlier. In the first nine months of the year, exports to the largest export market of fresh green peppers, Germany, decreased by 10 percent to 8.48 thousand tons, to Slovakia by 43 percent to 1.78 thousand tons, and to the Czech Republic by 56 percent to 831.8 tons. The most peppers, 3.38 thousand tons (+97 percent), came from Spain, followed by Egypt (+33 percent, 3.35 ...