Mushroom exports have strengthened

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The largest buyers of Hungarian champignons in the period under review were Austria (4.99 thousand tons, +36 percent) and Serbia (1.02 thousand tons, +71 percent). More than 70 percent of imports came from Poland (2.36 thousand tons, +39 percent). According to AKI PÁIR data, in the Budapest Wholesale Market, champignons were sold at a price of 979 forints/kilogram (+11 percent), oyster mushrooms at a price of 1172 forints/kilogram (+17 percent) in 2024. In the first fourteen weeks of 2025, champignons were sold at a price of 1000 forints/kilogram, and oyster mushrooms were sold at a price of 1202 forints/kilogram, an 8 percent increase compared to the same period of the previous year.

AKI PÁIR