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The picking season is in full swing at Almakúti

12 September 2022

A good year for the Royal Gala apple.

Snow, apricots in bloom and apple planting

Spring is an exciting time for growers every year, but also a beautiful time when the orchards come into bloom.

At Almakúti we love trees!

09 February 2022

Fruit trees require a lot of maintenance so that they continue to grow well and last a long time. All trees are therefore pruned by hand every year.

Ministry of Agriculture on a working visit

15 September 2021

Today a delegation from the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture is on a working visit to Almakúti. They will be there to demonstrate various frost control techniques that fruit growers can use to protect crops from frost damage.

Take a look at our apple tree nursery

Take a look at the tree nursery of Almakúti with approximately 145,000 apple trees in a beautiful setting.

Sustainable Almakúti 2.0

25 years of Almakúti, that's a great milestone to look back on with an eye to the future, on an Almakúti 2.0. A future-proof sustainable company in one of the most beautiful areas of Hungary: Balaton – Felvidék National Park.

Background article 25 years Almakúti in EFM

25 years of Almakúti was the reason for EFM to write a nice article about this.

Almakúti is 25 years old!

06 January 2021

From a hobby of Jan van Kessel that got out of hand, to the most beautiful fruit company in Hungary.

Most beautiful Fruit Grower of Hungary

16 September 2020

Almakúti has won the annual contest for the most beautiful Fruit Grower of Hungary!

Our company was nominated along with 20 estates and we have been elected winner in the Fruit Grower category!

Spring has arrived

Spring has arrived at Almakúti.

Harvest Time!

We've harvested the first apples of the season.

Growing apples with Almakúti!

Our apples are already 34 mm!

Pruning in winter

27 February 2018

Every winter, the fruit trees are pruned in Zalaszántó.

Gala apples

This week, Almakúti's colleagues started the pick of the Gala apple.

Pick apricots

Pick Apricots

Spring in the orchard

Our orchard is blossoming which shows in the beautiful pictures below.

Blossom Idared apples

The Idared apples had their first blooms opened this week.

Blossom in apricot trees

We have four acres of apricot trees, with Tomcot, Perlecot, Sunnycot and Ladycot.

BRC and IFS Certificates 2016

01 February 2016

Recently we received BRC and IFS certificates for our company.

GLOBAL GAP certificate 2016

06 January 2016

Our GLOBAL GAP certificate is once again extended.

First Granny's of the season

28 September 2015

The first Granny's of the season are going to Egypt

First harvest Gala and Elstar in

The first harvest of Gala and Elstar apples is in.

First apricots are sorted

Our first Tomcot and Perlecot apricots go through the sorting machine

Fruit grows well

The apricots are starting to colour very nicely.

Closing hail nets

At our company in Hungary we have closed the hail nets to protect our fruit.

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