Hungary: Livestock may also be affected by this year's poor crop yield
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Hungary
Published Jul 13, 2022
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Due to the drought, several farmers in Békés county started silage of corn. The decreasing quantity and poor quality of fodder will also affect the livestock sector - it was said at the meeting of the Békés county harvest coordination committee.
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According to the data sent to MTI by the Békés county directorate of the National Chamber of Agrarian Economy (NAK) on Tuesday, due to the lack of rainfall, "the condition of the already low-quality corn suitable for silage is deteriorating every day. ", they write. The participants in the meeting stated that "it is impossible to estimate how much crop loss can be expected" in the case of corn. The situation with sunflowers is not so hopeless, despite the fact that not even half of the usual harvest is expected, they added. Farmers in Békés county harvest almost 31,000 hectares of winter barley and 100,000 hectares of winter wheat. They finished the work on the barley fields, the average yield is 3.5 tons per hectare, the hectoliter weight is poor. After harvesting 95 percent of the winter wheat sowing area, the average yield is 3.2 tons per hectare. Last year's crop average was almost double that. The straw harvest is currently 60 percent. "There is a serious shortage of fodder ...
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