Hungary: Tomatoes expected quantities and prices

Among the AMITOM member states, i.e., the fourteen industrial tomato-producing countries of the Euro-Mediterranean region, there is no change in Hungary compared to the previously published forecast, after the 2022 harvest of around 80 thousand tons, the WPTC expects to produce around 100 thousand tons of industrial tomatoes for this season, and predicts an increase in prices. In Algeria, a national tomato crop of 2.5-2.7 million tons is likely, of which 50-60% may be processed, so the WPTC expects a crop of 1.35 million tons. In Egypt, during the peak of the winter harvest, the quality of the produce seems to be good in terms of Brix value and color, WPTC expects 500 thousand tons of tomatoes this year. In France, the organization is currently predicting a slightly larger harvest than last year, around 150,000 tons. In Greece, crops grown instead of tomatoes last year proved to be much less profitable than expected, so the processors hope that this year they will be able to ...