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Many products are expected to become more expensive due to the drought
Date: 2024-10-15 12:01:58
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?
Date: 2024-10-08 11:50:15
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
Date: 2024-10-03 12:20:41
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
Date: 2024-09-23 12:12:36
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
Date: 2024-09-23 12:03:52
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
Date: 2024-09-20 09:00:29
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
Date: 2024-09-13 10:30:02
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
Date: 2024-09-10 11:00:20
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
Date: 2024-09-09 09:00:00
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
Date: 2024-09-06 11:04:09
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
Date: 2024-09-05 11:22:16
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
Date: 2024-09-05 10:00:49
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
Date: 2024-09-04 10:59:13
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
Date: 2024-08-20 11:34:03
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
Date: 2024-08-15 09:30:52
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
Date: 2024-08-09 09:00:09
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
Date: 2024-08-06 09:30:13
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
Date: 2024-08-02 11:00:35
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
Date: 2024-08-01 09:30:42
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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Domestic vegetable and fruit production is in danger
Date: 2024-07-29 12:10:03
It’s a good time to know that Hungary can be a huge loser from climate change, and the severe droughts of recent years often show this. The first victims have...
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Agrometeorology: summer crops would need a lot of rainfall
Date: 2024-07-25 09:30:15
The summer harvest crops would need the most precipitation during this period, but the rains of the past few days alleviated the increasing lack of precipitation in only a few...
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Agrometeorology: moderate heat is coming, with little precipitation
Date: 2024-07-19 09:15:41
In the heat that lasted for ten days, showers mostly brought relief only in a scattered manner, but on Wednesday there were severe thunderstorms accompanied by downpours in many places...
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More wheat and barley were produced per hectare in Tolna
Date: 2024-07-16 10:00:29
More autumn wheat and barley were harvested per hectare in Tolna County than last year, the Tolna County Directorate of the National Chamber of Agrarian Economy told MTI on Tuesday....
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The harvest of the ear crops in Békés county has been completed
Date: 2024-07-16 09:00:57
The harvest of the ear crops in the Békés county has been completed, the yield averages of winter wheat and barley were better than last year, although the farmers sowed...
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Agrometeorology: There is a drought in an increasingly large area
Date: 2024-07-11 09:15:09
Especially in the central areas of Hungary, the drought is intensifying, the summer plants urgently need rain – HungaroMet Zrt. wrote in its agrometeorological analysis on Thursday. They wrote: there...
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Agrometeorology: the rain was good for sunflowers and corn, but not for wheat and canola waiting to be harvested
Date: 2024-06-27 09:00:01
The rainy weather of the past week was good for sunflowers and corn, but not for wheat and canola, which are still waiting to be harvested, HungaroMet Zrt wrote in...
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The NAK Szántóföldi Days were successful again this year
Date: 2024-06-06 09:30:47
The NAK Szántóföldi Days and Agricultural Machinery Show–Mezőfalva on June 5-6, 2024 took place again with great interest. At the country’s largest arable exhibition, the organizers focused on presenting sustainable farming...
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During the period of permanent water shortage, it is possible to irrigate without a water law permit
Date: 2024-05-31 09:30:17
The Ministry of Agriculture supported the initiative of the Association of Hungarian Farmers’ Cooperatives and Farmers’ Cooperatives and the National Chamber of Agriculture, following which the Ministry of the Interior...
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The permanent water shortage period was announced at the initiative of NAK and MAGOSZ
Date: 2024-05-27 09:00:30
Following the initiative of the National Chamber of Agriculture and the Association of Hungarian Farmers’ Associations and Farmers’ Cooperatives, the Minister of the Interior announced a permanent water shortage period...
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Agrometeorology: the drought will be alleviated by heavy rain in the next few days
Date: 2024-05-16 09:00:58
Heavy rains will ease the drought in the next week, wrote HungaroMet Zrt. in its Thursday agrometeorological analysis. They wrote that the soil near the surface of the southwestern part...
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