Hungary: Vegetable production brings an average yield, good market situation
Vegetables
Hungary
Published Jul 22, 2021
Tridge summary
Despite the weather difficulties and the special situation caused by the pandemic, the yield of the vegetable sector was in line with the long-term average, while the market situation and prices were good for most products - summed up last year's vegetable growing season by Ferenc Apáti, FruitVeB - Hungarian Vegetable-Fruit President of the organization.
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According to official data, the open-air vegetable growing area was slightly more than 82,000 hectares last year - but this does not include the area of Greek and melon, which together account for about 4,000 hectares - drew attention to Ferenc Apáti. The reason for treating these two species separately is that they are vegetable in terms of cultivation technology, but they are treated as fruit from a commercial and consumer point of view. The production area exceeding 82 thousand hectares last year does not represent a change compared to the usual size in recent years, but a structural change can be observed. In the long run, open-grown vegetables - excluding Greek and melons - brought in 1.2-1.3 million tons of commodity, while sprouted vegetables and cultivated mushrooms together contribute 430-470 thousand tons per year to national yields. "Thus, it can be said that in recent years the performance of domestic vegetable production is somewhere between 1.5-1.8 million tons, to ...
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