Hungarian strawberry growers expect a promising season
The heated cultivation of strawberries is slowly coming to an end, the domestic strawberry season begins with good flowering and crop prospects in the open field, although the cold weather causes some delays – the FruitVeB Hungarian Vegetable-Fruit Trade Organization and Product Council stated in response to a question from MTI.
The condition of the herds in the open field is particularly good, frost damage only occurred locally this year. In Hungary, greenhouse and heated cultivation only covers a few tens of hectares, a tiny fraction of the total area of more than 800 hectares. They added that in a large part of the gas-heated facilities, they did not even start cultivation at the usual time this year, but instead switched to cold operation.
The stocks with cold foil are just starting to be harvested, so there is not a large amount of goods on the market, but there are already Hungarian strawberries in the shops, the price per kilogram in the wholesale market is typically around HUF 3,000. Since the Mediterranean region “got cold” this year, there is hardly any import pressure – they noted. Temporarily, the prices of Spanish and Greek goods fell to 1,900-2,200 forints during the week from the previous level of around 1,200 forints.
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