Ovocinárstvo na Slovensku – vývojové tendencie

Fruit Growing in Slovakia – Development Tendencies

Jana Némethová, Emese Karcag

In: Geografické informácie (Geographical Information), Ročník (Volume) 28, Číslo (Issue) 1, 2024, p. 87-106, ISSN 1337-9453

DOI: 10.17846/GI.2024.28.1.87-106

Abstract

In the course of the 20th century, two important events—the transformation of the economy—the transition from central planning to a market economy and the integration into the European Union—affected the fruit sector in Slovakia. The aim of this study was to characterise the development and current state of the fruit sector in Slovakia. We analysed indicators such as production area and fruit production in the period 2009 – 2022. We presented the structure of entities engaged in fruit farming and dealt with organic production. The article used standard methods and techniques based on the comparative analysis of multi-year data related to the area of orchards, fruit production, and cartographic representation of the issue. A statistical-mathematical method was used to process the statistical data. We visualised the obtained statistical data graphically. The average annual value of total fruit production for the period 2009 – 2022 was 42.4 thousand tons. The analysed indicators (production, fruit production area) showed negative trends for several fruit species. There are 405 entities operating in the fruit sector in Slovakia, the number of which is decreasing every year. The most important regions in terms of the size of the production area, fruit production, and the number of operators are Nitra, Trnava, and Trenčín.

Keywords: fruit production, area of fruit orchards, entities, regions, Slovakia

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