Hungary’s 2022 grains crop prospects have been “substantially damaged” by extreme hot weather and a lack of rainfall, state news agency MTI reported Agriculture Minister Istvan Nagy as saying June 28.
The heatwave has also prompted an earlier than usual start to the nation’s grain harvest, he said.
Hungary, one of eastern Europe’s top grain producers, ordered a ban on all grain exports in March because of price increases caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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The Hungarian grain crop totalled 13.7 million tonnes last year, down 12 per cent from the previous year, partly because of dry conditions.
MTI cited Nagy as saying that farmers have reported heat damage on nearly 230,000 hectares (570,00 acres), about a tenth of last year’s total grain acreage.
