The production of pears decreased in the EU and increased in Hungary

By: STA Date: 2024. 02. 07. 10:30

According to data from the World Apple and Pear Association (WAPA), the European Union (including the United Kingdom) produced 1.7 million tons of pears in 2023, which is 13 percent less than the 2022 harvest. In Italy, pear output fell by 63 percent to 187,000 tons (due to frost, floods, heat waves and hail).

In the Netherlands, the harvest decreased by 3 percent to 341,000 tons. According to the forecast of the French Ministry of Agriculture (Agreste), the country’s pear harvest was 126.2 thousand tons, which is 12 percent less than the 2022 harvest. At the same time, output in Belgium increased by 19 percent to 412,000 tons, and in Spain by 25 percent to 296,000 tons (WAPA). Data from the German Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) show that 37.8 thousand tons (+3.5 percent) of pears were grown in Germany in 2023.

According to data from the European Commission, the price of pears was higher in December 2023 than a year earlier

According to KSH data, 13.8 thousand tons of pears were harvested in Hungary in 2022, 36 percent less than the year before, which was considered a record low year. In 2023, the amount of the crop increased by 33 percent (WAPA). According to AKI PÁIR data, the producer price of pears harvested in 2023 on the Budapest Wholesale Market rose by 22 percent to HUF 688/kilogram between July and December 2023 compared to the same period of the previous year. In the first five weeks of this year, domestic pears were available at an average producer price of HUF 839/kilogram (+17 percent). The wholesale price of the imported Alexander/Bosc kobak variety rose by 23 percent to HUF 1,001/kilogram, and the price of the Santa Maria variety rose by 10 percent to HUF 920/kilogram at the same time.

AKI PÁIR