Ministry of Agriculture: this year 450 thousand tons of grapes is expected

This year, 450,000 tons of grapes is expected, which is similar to last year’s amount. Quality is excellent, so it can be an excellent vintage – Feldman Zsolt, Minister of State of the Ministry of Agriculture (AM) told M1 news channel on Thursday.

He explained that although the Hungarian wine market year starts on 1 August, the grape harvest started weeks earlier.

Feldman Zsolt pointed out that in Europe lower grape volume is expected than the average of the last five years. (MTI)