Imports of red onions decreased by 24 percent

By: STA Date: 2023. 10. 10. 11:00

According to KSH data, the amount of red onion has ranged between 39 and 54 thousand tons in the last five years. In 2022, it produced 2 percent more red onions (51.4 thousand tons) than a year earlier. According to experts, the area of red onions increased by 3 percent to 1,601 hectares in 2023 compared to the previous year.

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According to KSH data, in the first seven months of 2023, Hungary’s red onion imports decreased by 24 percent – 9.73 thousand tons – compared to a year earlier. Slovakia delivered 42 percent (1.74 thousand tons), Austria 61 percent (974.6 tons), and Germany 82 percent (556.1 tons) less red onions to our country. At the same time, 34 percent more onions (3.27 thousand tons) arrived from the Netherlands, and goods from Egypt (996.7 tons) and Slovenia (668.5 tons) also appeared. Hungary’s annual onion export is not significant (1-2 thousand tons).

In the first seven months of this year, exports increased by 124 percent to 722.1 tons, the majority of which went to Romania

According to AKI PÁIR data, the Budapest Wholesale Market 2023 1–15. The producer price of free-range brown-skinned red onions was 126 percent higher (HUF 333/kilogram) than a year earlier. The producer price of red onions with brown skin harvested this year (HUF 368/kilogram) 2023 24–40. per week exceeded the average price of the same period in 2022 by 67 percent.

AKI PÁIR