Drought can cause hundreds of billions of losses to Hungarian farmers

Drought can cause hundreds of billions of loss of income for Hungarian farmers – the head of the National Agricultural Chamber (NAK) told M1 news channel.

In the past one and a half months, a half of the precipitation of the average for many years has fallen. There has been no such drought in the past 20 years – was noted.

Water shortages mainly affect autumn cereals: wheat and rapeseed are in the greatest danger. (MTI)