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Environmental protection facilitates balanced development
Ministry of Agriculture, October 19, 2017 4:39 PM
“Environmental protection facilitates permanent, balanced development”, the Ministry of Agriculture’s Minister of State for Environmental Affairs, Agricultural Development and Hungaricums said on Tuesday in Budapest at an international conference held on the sidelines of the 6th Annual Forum of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR) held in the Hungarian capital on 18-19 October.
Donation Convoy for the starving
Ministry of Agriculture, October 17, 2017 2:47 PM
“We agree with the UN’s food and agriculture organisations (FAO, IFAD, WFP) that people living in rural areas in developing countries must be given assistance on site to help them find their livelihoods and not be forced to leave their homes”, the Ministry of Agriculture’s Minster of State for Public Administration Andrea Gulyás stressed on Monday at a press conference in Budapest to mark World Food Day.
National Protein Feed Programme to be launched
Ministry of Agriculture, October 17, 2017 2:46 PM
“A three-year research & development programme is being launched in the interests of fully replacing imported genetically manipulated soy in Hungarian animal feeds”, the Minister of Agriculture announced on Monday.
Carpathian Convention – 3-year Hungarian presidency begins
Ministry of Agriculture, October 15, 2017 1:32 PM
Hungary has assumed the three-year presidency of the Framework Convention on the Protection and Sustainable Development of the Carpathians (Carpathian Convention), which is operated by seven countries under the auspices of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The presidency was officially transferred within the framework of a three-day, high-level conference in Lillafüred, near Miskolc, with the participation of the parties to the Convention, at which Minister of Agriculture Sándor Fazekas received the baton representing the performance of presidential duties from the representative of the Czech Republic.
Consumers must not be tricked
Ministry of Agriculture, October 14, 2017 6:55 PM
“Consumers must not be discriminated and tricked, and it is outrageous that differing products are still being marketed under the same brand name in Europe”, Minister of Agriculture Sándor Fazekas said on Friday in Bratislava Castle, Slovakia, where he was attending an EU meeting on putting an end to the practice of dual food product quality with the participation of the heads of government of the Visegrád Group (V4, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia), representatives of every EU member state, and related EU politicians.
Central European environment ministers and experts hold talks in Miskolc
Ministry of Agriculture, October 14, 2017 6:54 PM
A three-day meeting of Visegrád Group (V4, Hungary, Slovakia Poland and the Czech Republic) environment ministers and representatives is being held in Miskolc; the event is also being attended by delegations from Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia”, it was stated at a press conference held mid-way through the meeting on Wednesday.
Expanding agrarian trade between Lebanon and Hungary
Ministry of Agriculture, October 12, 2017 10:24 AM
The deputy agriculture ministers of Hungary and Lebanon met in Budapest on Wednesday to discuss opportunities for the expansion of agrarian trade between the two countries.
Job creation ideas given priority within the Rural Development Programme
Ministry of Agriculture, October 11, 2017 11:35 AM
“Within the framework of the Rural Development Programme, we are mainly funding the realisation of innovative ideas that are centred of job creation”, Deputy Agriculture Minister István Nagy said at a professional conference in Szarvas.
High standard crop production is in the national interest
Ministry of Agriculture, October 11, 2017 11:34 AM
“Research into new plant strains is one of the key elements of crop production, in view of the fact that biological resources represent secure production for the agrarian and forest management sectors”, Minister of Agriculture Sándor Fazekas said that the “125 Years of Hungarian Plant Research” conference.
V4 statement in the interests of preserving agricultural funding
Ministry of Agriculture, October 11, 2017 11:33 AM
The countries of the Visegrád Group (V4) and the Baltic States have made a joint stand in favour of a suitably funded, strong, two-pillar Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) at the session of the Agriculture and Fisheries Council in Luxembourg.