Hungary's autumn barley harvest could reach 600,000 tons this year

According to the Rural Development Ministry, Hungary's autumn barley harvest could reach 600,000 tons this year, state secretary György Czerván said within the compass of a press conference on Friday.

Farmers in the south of Hungary have already harvested autumn barley on 2,000 of about 165,000 hectares, Czerván added. Average yield for the crop is expected to be 3.8 tons a hectare, he added. Farmers have also started harvesting autumn wheat and experts put the average yield around 4 tons a hectare for this year's crop, he said. Thus farmers could harvest 3.9 million tons of wheat this year, the expert pointed out.