Magazine: There is less apple in the market, but it is cheaper

Data from the Agricultural Economics Research Institute’s (AKI) market price information system (PÁIR) reveal that the production price of wheat was HUF 53,000 in January 2014, 23 percent less than in January 2013. The European Commission’s forecast is that the EU’s meat production will be around 22.3 million tons this year. A little less pork will be exported and pork import may grow by 10 percent. On 1 December 2013 there were 2.935 million pigs in Hungary (KSH data) – 1.8 percent less than a year earlier. However, Hungary’s live pig export was 11 percent higher in January-November 2013 than a year before; our live pig import was 2 percent below last year’s level. In the fist eleven months of last year Hungary’s poultry meat import was 53,000 tons, 13 percent more than in the same period of 2012; our poultry meat export augmented by 7 percent to 191,000 tons. According to WAPA’s (World Apple and Pear Association) estimation, in Hungary 21 percent less apple was harvested in 2013 than in 2012