The fruit and vegetable sector closed a good year in 2014
The fruit and vegetable sector closed a good year last year, mainly due to favorable weather conditions; the volume of production totaled 2.97 million tons – Ledó Ferenc the president of the Hungarian Fruit and Vegetable Interprofessional Organisation (FruitVeB) told MTI at the organization’s meeting in Budapest on Tuesday.
Ledó Ferenc told that from vegetables about 15 to 17 percent more grown last year than in 2013, from fruits crop was about 26-28 percent higher.
He added that the total yield of field vegetables reached 1.4 million tons, while the yield of greenhouse vegetables was 395 thousand. The mushroom yield was 25 thousand tons in 2014, the fruits yield reached 1.15 million tons. (MTI)
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