Abstract
There are profound, long-term changes in world apple production and trade. The former hegemony of Europe in apple production doest not exists any more, among the most important apple exporters the emerging economies have a growing importance. The globalising apple market means new challenges of traditional producers. This is especially true for Hungary, which has been the most important apple exporter in terms of quantity thirty years ago, but now its production hardly covers the domestic demand. A necessary precondition of the modernisation is the re-construction of plantations and the cold-storage system. Analysing the economic effi ciency of apple production and cold storage, it is obvious, that a necessary precondition for the modern, competitive apple production is the availability of cold-storage facilities. Neither the apple-production, nor the cold-storage can not evaluated separately from each other. Under current Hungarian conditions there is a need for active state support for the establishment of cold-storage facilities.
Highlights
The fruit production is an important part of the Hungarian agriculture (Takács-György and Vágány, 2003)
The fruit growing is a key element of regional development in less favoured areas of Hungary, because it demands a relatively much input of living labour, and in this way offers a favourable possibility for the workplace creation and the utilisation of lesser qualified as well as part-time workers
The aim of the current paper is to present a comprehensive economic analysis of an apple-orchard project, from the phase of establishment of orchard to the end of the life cycle of it
Summary
The fruit production is an important part of the Hungarian agriculture (Takács-György and Vágány, 2003). The valueadded content of fruit-growing is among the highest in portfolio of agricultural production. The fruit growing is a key element of regional development in less favoured areas of Hungary, because it demands a relatively much input of living labour, and in this way offers a favourable possibility for the workplace creation and the utilisation of lesser qualified as well as part-time workers. The most important causes of this process are as follows: (1) relative and absolute decreasing of the intensity of agricultural production; (2) decreasing of technical and technological level; (3) deterioration of biological bases of production. Parallel with the general declining, there are some farms with modern, marketable varieties, intensive plantations, mechanisation and wide-range application of modern production methods and technologies. The Hungarian fruit production is far behind from its theoretical agro-ecological potential
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