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Drought-hit corn farmers receive extraordinary support
Date: 2025-09-25 09:30:06
Financial assistance has arrived for smaller, economically more vulnerable corn farmers who were in a difficult situation due to last year’s severe drought. Based on applications submitted in July, the...
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Agrometeorology: precipitation hinders the harvest, but is good for the sprouted rapeseed
Date: 2025-09-25 09:00:28
Rain hinders the harvest of sunflower and corn, but is very good for the sprouted rapeseed – wrote HungaroMet Zrt. in its agrometeorological analysis on Thursday. According to the analysis,...
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Agrometeorology: late summer weather helps ripening and harvesting
Date: 2025-09-19 09:00:34
We should prepare for dry and summer-like warm weather until the middle of next week, which will help ripening and harvesting – HungaroMet Zrt. wrote in its agrometeorological analysis on...
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Agrometeorology: Drought is only slowly easing in the Great Plain
Date: 2025-09-11 09:00:50
The rains and showers of the first half of the week provided thorough irrigation in many places, but the soil in the southern half of the Danube-Tisza region remains very...
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2025 was another year of drought in Hungary
Date: 2025-09-09 11:19:15
2025 was another year of drought in Hungary – despite the fact that there was more rainfall than in the infamous year 2022, the groundwater level continued to sink, the...
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Agrometeorology: mostly dry, summery warm, sunny weather helps the harvest
Date: 2025-09-04 09:00:11
The agricultural drought has ended in a large area in Transdanubia, and has eased in many places in the east, and in the future, mostly dry, summery warm, sunny weather...
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Hungarian agriculture in the grip of extremes: damages already amount to more than 100 billion forints
Date: 2025-08-29 10:35:23
In 2025, frost damage and summer drought caused more than 100 billion forints of damage together. The yield of orchards fell by 70-80 percent in several places, and arable crops...
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Agrometeorology: Precipitation is coming, but the amount is not as needed
Date: 2025-08-28 09:00:06
Rain is greatly needed across the country, and precipitation is coming in the coming days, but the amount is expected to be well below what is needed – HungaroMet Zrt....
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Agrometeorology: significant precipitation expected, but not in sufficient quantity
Date: 2025-08-21 09:00:23
Significant precipitation is expected on Thursday and Friday, although not evenly distributed and not in sufficient quantity – wrote HungaroMet Zrt. in its agrometeorological analysis on Thursday. According to the...
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Agrometeorology: Drought intensifies, forced ripening of summer crops expected
Date: 2025-08-14 09:00:30
The heat is increasing in the coming days, and no significant precipitation is expected in most parts of the country, so forced ripening of summer crops is expected under drought...
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Agrometeorology: heatwave, atmospheric drought and heat stress await plants
Date: 2025-08-07 09:00:52
Sunny, dry weather is expected until next weekend with peak temperatures above 30 degrees Celsius and frequent atmospheric drought, which not only makes the development of field plants more difficult,...
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Agrometeorology: Drought not easing in large areas
Date: 2025-07-31 09:30:15
Precipitation arrived in many places at the end of last week, but large areas were almost completely left out of the rain. A heat wave is not likely in the...
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Drought anxiety in agriculture: corn, potatoes and apples are most at risk
Date: 2025-07-29 11:01:27
This summer’s drought is already making its mark on Hungarian agriculture – the yields of maize, potatoes and apples are most at risk of significant decline. Experts from the HUN-REN...
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HUN-REN: This year’s drought may mainly affect the yield of corn, potatoes and apples
Date: 2025-07-29 09:00:15
This year’s drought may mainly affect the yield of corn, potatoes and apples – the HUN-REN Agricultural Research Center drew attention on Monday. In their statement, they emphasized: according to...
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Agrometeorology: Plants are waiting for precipitation
Date: 2025-07-24 09:00:51
The poor weather of the past week has not been good for plant development, with the exception of the western, northwestern and northeastern parts of the country, the area affected...
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Harvesting is over in Békés County
Date: 2025-07-22 09:30:10
The harvesting is over in Békés, the average yields are well below previous years. The storm is damaging the sunflower, the drought is damaging the corn. According to the data...
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A thousand water experts are working to combat the drought
Date: 2025-07-20 09:00:33
A thousand water experts are working nationwide to combat the drought and to help troubled pond farms, fish and fishing pond operators – said the State Secretary for Agriculture of...
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Imre Hubai: artificial water replenishment helps the landscape’s natural adaptability
Date: 2025-07-18 09:30:23
Artificial water replenishment, which is inevitably necessary due to climate change, helps the landscape’s natural adaptability – stated Imre Hubai, the State Secretary responsible for agriculture at the Ministry of...
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It’s hot on the pasture – heat stress research in pastured beef cattle
Date: 2025-07-17 10:45:27
The summer drought poses serious challenges to livestock producers in addition to crop production, with pastures already showing signs of discharges typical of August in many places. Heat stress is...
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Agrometeorology: further precipitation is greatly needed
Date: 2025-07-17 09:00:50
Although significant precipitation arrived last week after the extreme drought in June, and the drought has eased or even ended in large areas, further precipitation is needed in many places...
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A watershed year in viticulture: this is how winemakers are fighting the drought
Date: 2025-07-10 10:48:05
The lack of precipitation is now critical for vineyards in the post-flowering stage: where there is no rain, producers can expect severe crop losses and capital destruction. The year 2025...
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Ecological water replenishment has begun on the Ős-Sárvíz River
Date: 2025-07-10 10:00:30
Ecological water replenishment has begun on the Szedres section of the Ős-Sárvíz River, 100 l/minute, a total of 80 thousand cubic meters of fresh water is being supplied to the...
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Agrometeorology: Drought eased nationwide, ended in large areas
Date: 2025-07-10 09:00:47
Due to the precipitation that fell in the first half of the week, the drought eased nationwide, ended in large areas, and vegetation refreshed – HungaroMet Zrt. wrote in its...
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Irrigation water resources equivalent to one-third of Lake Balaton are available
Date: 2025-07-05 11:00:27
Despite the extraordinary drought and lack of precipitation, we can meet all irrigation needs – said Imre Hubai, State Secretary for Agriculture at the Ministry of Agriculture. He added that...
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Free irrigation water provided to farmers is a key element in the fight against drought
Date: 2025-07-05 10:00:57
Free irrigation water provided to farmers is a key element in the fight against drought, the State Secretary for Agriculture of the Ministry of Agriculture announced in Kisköre on Saturday....
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There is a problem with corn
Date: 2025-07-04 11:06:43
As we enter the middle of the summer harvest season, the picture of the 2025 arable crop results is becoming clearer. The barley harvest is practically complete, and about a...
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We must learn to manage our own water resources responsibly
Date: 2025-07-04 10:15:05
As with football, it is also true for water management that we are a country of ten million experts, but before we pass judgment on the subject or give advice...
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Viktor Orbán: a thousand people and more than two hundred machines mobilized to reduce drought damage
Date: 2025-07-04 09:45:08
Five billion forints had to be mobilized to reduce the damage caused by the drought, about a thousand people had to be assigned, while more than 200 machines are also...
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Imre Hubai: Sufficient Quantity and Good Quality of Grain Harvested in Hungary
Date: 2025-07-04 09:00:52
This year’s harvest has yielded a satisfactory quantity and quality of grain in Hungary – announced Imre Hubai, State Secretary for Agriculture at the Ministry of Agriculture, during a press...
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Farmers are being helped against drought with free water fees, water retention and irrigation modernization
Date: 2025-07-01 09:00:55
While the government supports farmers by assuming the water service fee and developing irrigation, Brussels and the Tisza Party would make farmers pay for the cost of fighting the drought,...
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