KSH: 82 percent of the agricultural area is arable

By: Trademagazin editor Date: 2021. 09. 13. 11:38

The size of the country’s agricultural land was 5 million 47,000 hectares on June 1. Of this, 82 percent was used as arable land and 15 percent as grassland, and the vineyards and orchards together covered about 3 percent of the agricultural area, according to the latest summary from the Central Statistical Office (KSH).

Hungary has five million hectares of production area

1.7 percent of the area was orcharded, 1.2 percent vineyards, while kitchen gardens occupied 0.1 percent.

Cereals were grown on most of the arable land, with more than 2.4 million hectares sown this year. The highest proportions were sown in winter wheat and corn, which grew nearly 47 percent of the total arable land this year. (MTI)