Hungary: Slowly but surely the price of apples is falling

Published 2021년 1월 22일

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The Central Statistical Office's consumer price bulletin for December 2020 reveals that apple prices were almost unchanged from November at HUF 457 per kilogram, but remained higher than April and were the highest among vegetables, fruits, and most foods in the bulletin's inflation basket. Oranges saw a significant price increase of 23%, while the prices of lemons, tomatoes, machine ham, Italian cold cuts, and Paris cuts also rose. In contrast, the prices of several foods and meat products fell, and the prices of all spirits, flavored spirits, and white table wine increased the most. Sunflower cooking oil had the highest price increase at 18.7%.

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The average price of apples of HUF 457 per kilogram in December 2020 was only HUF 5 lower than in November, although it is still well below last year's peak of HUF 624, which was registered in August last year, according to the Central Statistical Office's (CSO) consumer price bulletin. Apples were cheaper than in December only last April, which rose by 42.4 percent in 2020. With this increase in price, apples stand out not only from vegetables and fruits, but also from the foods in the CSO's inflation basket. The 23% increase in the price of oranges is also significant, one kilogram of southern fruit cost 596 forints in December, but in October it cost 813 forints, while in January last year only 478 forints had to be given for it on average. Lemon went up by 9.6 percent and tomatoes by 9.5 percent over that time period. The 2.5 percent rise in cucumber prices, compared to this, doesn’t even count much. Headed cabbage was 3.5 percent, onions 5.2 percent, bananas 7.1 percent, and ...

Source: AgroForum