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European Central Bank: Water scarcity is the most significant natural risk to the European economy

Surface water scarcity is the most significant natural risk to the European economy, the Luxembourg Times, an English-language Luxembourg news portal, reported on Friday, describing research by the European Central...

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AM: sustainable water management is the basis of innovative agriculture

The effects of climate change, increasingly frequent droughts and the scarcity of water resources make it necessary to develop adaptation strategies in water management – emphasized Imre Hubai, the State...

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Research related to drought protection and water management is of paramount importance

Research and development related to drought and water management are of key importance for the sustainability of agriculture. The knowledge available at the Karcag National Climate and Landscape Research Center...

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Drought situation receives special attention

The government is preparing a coordinated action plan to prevent drought damage. Thanks to this, actors in the water sector will receive special attention and funding to manage the drought...

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Viktor Orbán: We have established the Drought Protection Operational Group

Today, we have established the Drought Protection Operational Group – Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced in a video posted on Facebook on Tuesday. The Prime Minister said that according to...

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Significant help for farmers, damage mitigation support is coming

By the end of March, more than 10 thousand farmers will receive approximately 30 billion forints in agricultural damage mitigation benefits following the damage events that occurred last year. The...

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NAK and MAGOSZ declare permanent water shortage period

Following the initiative of the National Chamber of Agriculture and the Association of Hungarian Farmers’ Circles and Cooperatives, the Minister of Energy declared a permanent water shortage period for the...

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Agrometeorology: Further abundant rainfall would be needed for optimal vegetation development

Further abundant rainfall would be needed for optimal vegetation development, as the soil was not fully replenished with moisture in most parts of the country during the winter, but there...

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Water crisis in Hungary: drought is worsening, urgent steps are needed

In recent decades, Hungary’s water resources have been continuously decreasing, while increasingly extreme weather conditions are worsening the situation. According to the third National Watershed Management Plan (VGT 3), published...

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AM: this year’s harvest and sowing have come to an end

This year, the autumn harvesting and sowing work was completed, the soil was sufficiently moist for autumn sowing, and in the more or less sunny weather, it was possible to...

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This year’s harvest and sowing have come to an end

This year’s autumn harvest and sowing work has been completed, the soil was sufficiently moist for autumn sowing, and in the more or less sunny weather, autumn agricultural work could...

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Many products are expected to become more expensive due to the drought

This year’s drought summer dealt a heavy blow to Hungarian agriculture, causing significant crop losses for several crops. Speaking to Pénzcentrum, the editor-in-chief of the Agrárszektor, Lajos Braunmüller, said that...

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A challenging market: why is it difficult to sustainably grow sweet potatoes in Hungary?

Although the popularity of sweet potatoes and the demand for them are constantly growing in Hungary, the domestic supply is not able to fully satisfy the needs. As a result,...

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This year’s drought also had a negative impact on the performance of the domestic canning industry

The domestic canning industry was able to buy a medium sweet corn crop and a weak green pea crop this year. According to the overview of the National Chamber of...

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Blue Planet: we must adapt to the challenges of climate change

If the environment changes, we can be sure of one thing: the farmers must also change – stressed István Nagy, Minister of Agriculture, to former head of state János Áder...

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Rising coffee prices: disasters strike the world’s largest coffee growers

Coffee is becoming more expensive across Europe, as the world’s two largest coffee-growing countries, Brazil and Vietnam, faced severe natural disasters, reports EuroNews. Brazil was hit by a historic drought,...

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Agrometeorology: sunny, dry weather helps early autumn work

Sunny, dry weather helps agricultural work in early autumn – read the agrometeorological analysis of HungaroMet Zrt. on Thursday. Cyclone Boris brought significant precipitation and cooling to the area of...

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Italian locusts have multiplied in two southern counties

During the summer, the National Food Chain Safety Office (Nébih) received several reports from Bács-Kiskun and Csongrád-Csanád counties about the Italian locust, which is multiplying and causing significant damage. The...

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The EU’s common agricultural policy must focus on farmers A

ccording to Hungary’s point of view, the European Union’s common agricultural policy (CAP) should focus on farmers, the minister of agriculture said on Tuesday in Budapest, at a press conference...

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The corn and sunflower yield forecast has been changed

By the beginning of September, agricultural chamber yield estimation data based on both satellite and producer data are available for domestic corn and sunflower. For the former, the third lowest...

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Drought-stricken crop prospects: tragic domestic corn and sunflower harvest in 2024

By the beginning of September, final estimates of this year’s Hungarian corn and sunflower harvest will be available, which were prepared by the National Chamber of Agrarian Economy (NAK) based...

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Raspberries may disappear, bananas will grow, and there will be new pets in Hungarian agriculture

The situation in the Carpathian Basin is worrying due to climate change. Plant species that once felt comfortable in the area may disappear, but now the climate is not suitable...

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Agrometeorology: to sow rapeseed, it is essential to moisten the soil

There is enough moisture in the soil to sow autumn cabbage rape only in small patches, the soil layer affected by sowing is very dry and dusty in most parts...

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Corn can be replaced with sorghum due to the drought

This year, extreme weather, especially drought, caused severe damage across Europe, especially in Central and South-Eastern Europe and Southern Europe. The drought resulted in significant crop losses in Hungary as...

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Record-breaking heat and drought in Hungary: serious damage and forecasts

The extreme heat experienced in recent days has serious consequences in Hungary. On Thursday, a third-degree heat alert was in effect in four counties, and from Friday, the heat will...

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Agrometeorology: plants are suffering from drought, the heat is only slowly easing

Summer crops are suffering from drought all over the country, however, the rainfall during the long weekend significantly alleviates the drought in only a few places, and the heat is...

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Agrometeorology: the drought is not easing

For weeks, the drought has been intensifying in most of Hungary, corn and sunflower stocks are in forced ripening in more and more places and have begun to dry out,...

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Drought damage in agriculture

By the beginning of August, it had reached 75,000 hectares, and the size of the areas declared for drought damage is growing by several tens of thousands of hectares every...

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The drought took a toll on the corn in the Tolna county

Among the arable crops, corn grown on 66.5 thousand hectares was the most affected by the weeks of drought and heat in Tolna County, the Tolna County Directorate of the...

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Agrometeorology: the drought is getting worse

The summer crops would have needed a lot of rainfall in the past week, a large part of Hungary is experiencing a high degree of increasing drought. Maize and sunflower...

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