The Ukrainian walnut destroyed the domestic shops and markets, this is what the Hungarians are salting

According to the data of the CSO, the nut yield in Hungary was around 3 thousand tons in the mid-1990s, then increased to 6.8 thousand tons in 2019 due to the plantings of recent years. Experts rated the 2021 nut harvest in the western part of the country as medium and good in the eastern part. The data of the CSO also revealed that the foreign trade balance of shelled walnuts in Hungary is positive, as its imports were insignificant: between January and November 2021 it was 23 tons. At the same time, the volume of nuts exported increased by 6 per cent to 478 tonnes (12 per cent to HUF 443 million). The shipment was mainly to Germany. The foreign trade balance of walnut kernels has turned negative in the last two years. In the first eleven months of 2021, the export of walnut kernels decreased by 43 percent to 255.7 tons (its value decreased by 41 percent to HUF 494 million). The export market for walnut kernels is more diversified than that for walnuts in shell. The UK, a ...