Due to climatic reasons, Hungarian green peas have been endangered

In the case of green peas in particular, negative phenomena can be perceived, due to which the viability of the sector has also been endangered - writes the FruitVeB Hungarian Fruit and Vegetable Interprofessional Organization and Product Council. The profitability of production has deteriorated significantly in recent years, mainly due to climatic reasons, although it is a sector or product of strategic importance: about 2/3 of the output of the fruit and vegetable processing industry is accounted for by the refrigeration and canning industry. and 70-80% of its raw material purchases are sweet corn and green peas. Should the green pea sector cease to exist or decline significantly, the current approx. In addition to the disappearance of 18 thousand hectares of green peas, he also took 10-15 thousand hectares of secondary sowing sweet corn. All this would be lethal for the domestic refrigeration and canning industry, because the processing season would be shortened by about 1.5 ...