The sowing area of the malting barley was halved in the past 5 years

The sowing area of the malting barley was halved during the past five years, while the sowing area of fodder rose by one fifth – agrarszektor.hu wrote.

“These lands in the Jászság are weak for barley, we are dealing with triticale,” – farmers said in Jásztelek, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county. The profitability of cereals has now been reduced to a modest extent from the extremely high level after the economic crisis. (agrarszektor.hu, Gönczi Krisztina)