The drought killed all the crops
Where they didn’t irrigate, the entire crop grew, and where they did, much lower quality, smaller and more withered fruit was produced. The apple crop has never been as bad as this year, but what about other fruits? How will crop failure appear on store shelves, and what will happen next year? HVG asked agricultural players after a disastrous summer.
There has not been such a drought in Hungary as this year for several decades, negative water level records are being broken one after another, Tiszántúl is full of parched fields and the fruit harvest is noticeably weaker compared to previous years.
Basically, there is nothing strange about the fact that the summer here is dry, this year is extreme because it hasn’t rained since April – with the exception of Transdanubia – until the end of August. It’s also warmer than usual. However, the problems started much earlier: according to Ferenc Apáti, the president of the FruitVeB fruit and vegetable trade association, we are not talking about a precipitation deficit of a few months, but of a year, since after last year’s dry summer, little precipitation fell in autumn and winter.
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