There will be bread despite the drought in Hungary
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Rye
Published Jul 5, 2022
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Despite the dry, hot weather and the drought, the country's bread is secured, Minister of Agriculture István Nagy announced in a video uploaded to his social media page.
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The minister drew attention to the fact that with the harvest of autumn barley, the harvest work on the fields began in mid-June, and in most places the harvesting of the plant was already completed by the end of the month. According to the minister, it is feared that due to the lack of rainfall for several months, a lower crop yield from rye grain can be expected than in recent years. In Hungary, the drought most severely affects the counties of Bács-Kiskun, Békés, Csongrád-Csanád, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok and Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg. In Transdanubia, plants received more rain during the critical phases, so the situation is more favorable in these areas. The size of the areas affected by the damage report reached 230,000 hectares by the end of June. In the current situation, the agricultural damage mitigation system is an important help for the actors of the sector. 80 percent of the drought reports so far relate to fall-sown grain crops. The Ministry of Agriculture's guide will help ...
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