Wine import halved

Data from the Agricultural Economics Research Institute (AKI) and KSH’s market price information system (PÁIR) revealed that domestic sales of wines without geographical indication and wines with protected geographical indication fell 15 percent. Wine’s processing sales price was 2 percent higher in the first two months of 2016 than in the same period of 2015.

According to the Central Statistical Office (KSH), Hungary’s wine export didn’t change in volume but grew by 2 percent in value in the first eleven months of 2015. In the same period our wine import halved and in value it contracted by 29 percent. On week 5 of 2016 broiler chicken’s live weight production price was HUF 255/kg – 3 percent lower than a year earlier. Whole chicken’s processing sales price reduced by 6 percent.