The Hungarian garlic is in trouble, we need to import it

Published 2021년 12월 4일

Tridge summary

Hungary's garlic production has declined, with the yield dropping by 27% in 2020 to 5212 tons from 7.68 hectares. The country's foreign trade balance is negative, with imports making up 12-40% of the domestic crop, primarily from Spain and the Netherlands. Meanwhile, exports, mainly to neighboring countries, stood at 434 tons. The price of Hungarian garlic ranged from HUF 1,000 to HUF 1,400 per kilogram. The European Union, led by Spain and the Netherlands, produced around 400,000 tonnes of garlic on nearly 46,000 hectares in 2020. The EU is a net garlic exporter, with imports and exports standing at 53.5 thousand tonnes and 96 thousand tonnes, respectively, in 2020. However, EU exports dropped by 32% in the first eight months of 2021, while imports increased by 5%.

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Original content

Hungary is getting worse in growing garlic. Both the production area and the yield show a declining trend: the yield was between 5.2 and 7.9 thousand tons in the last 10 years, in 2020 5212 tons of garlic were harvested from 768 hectares, which was 27 percent less than a year earlier. . In Hungary, Csongrád-Csanád county is the garlic center: the county has the most significant production area of 674 hectares. According to the summary of the Institute of Agricultural Economics, which also presents CSO data, Hungary's foreign trade balance in garlic is negative, wrote Napi.hu. In the last 3 years, the supply has been supplemented by imports, which account for 12–40 percent of the domestic crop. This year - in the first 8 months of the year - 68 percent more garlic arrived on the Hungarian market from Spain and 106 percent more from the Netherlands. Meanwhile, Italian imports fell 7 percent to 347.7 tons. The size of Hungarian exports is small compared to the previous ones: it ...

Source: Magro