Hungary: Vegetable production brings an average yield, good market situation

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 ...