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The Eastern Opening policy is creating new opportunities for agricultural products
Ministry of Agriculture, September 12, 2017 4:28 PM
“We have succeeded in selling last year’s record harvest and continuously increasing agricultural exports are one of the success stories of excellent quality crops and Hungarian agricultural diplomacy”, the minister of Agriculture said on Hungarian M1 television’s morning show and Kossuth Radio’s “180 Minutes” program.
Sándor Fazekas receives outgoing Croatian Ambassador to Budapest
Ministry of Agriculture, September 12, 2017 4:26 PM
“Our common history and Croatia’s membership of the European union are both important links connecting the two countries, and accordingly maintaining good, neighbourly relations and close cooperation in professional issues is in our mutual interests”, Minister of Agriculture Sándor Fazekas declared during his conversation with Croatian Ambassador Gordan Grlić Radman.
Hungarian-Chinese relations have gained momentum recently
Ministry of Agriculture, September 1, 2017 2:56 PM
“Hungarian-Chinese relations have gained momentum recently thanks to the Government’s Eastern Opening policy”, Minister of Agriculture Sándor Fazekas told Hungarian news agency MTI on Monday in Gornja Radgona, Slovenia.
Hungarian agrarian technology and research results also needed in Kazakhstan
Ministry of Agriculture, August 31, 2017 3:05 PM
“A promising opportunity is opening up in Hungarian-Kazakh agrarian relations; Hungary could play an important role in the modernisation of Kazakh agriculture, which is experiencing major development. The agreements concluded with the Central Asian country with relation to university studies and the fields of fisheries and agricultural research also serve to reinforce cooperation between the two states”, Minister of Agriculture Sándor Fazekas said on Hungarian M1 television’s morning program and Kossuth Radio’s “180 Minutes” program on Wednesday.
First shipment of horses arrives in China directly from Budapest
Ministry of Agriculture, August 31, 2017 3:04 PM
In mid-August, a shipment of 14 Hungarian-bred racehorses was shipped to China directly from Budapest’s Liszt Ferenc International Airport on board a plane owned by cargo airline Cargolux, commissioned by HELLMANN WWL Ltd.
Hungary regains bird flu-free classification
Ministry of Agriculture, August 31, 2017 3:03 PM
In accordance with the applicable requirements of the World organisation for Animal health (OIE), Hungary regained its free of avian influenza classification on 24 August 2017.
The continued existence of the Hungarian nation is unimaginable without strong rural and farming communities
Ministry of Agriculture, August 23, 2017 12:04 PM
“Our country’s retaining power has been determined for a thousand years by Hungarians who work and produce on Hungarian farmland”, Minister of Agriculture Sándor Fazekas said at an event organised by the Ministry to commemorate Saint Stephen, the founder of the State of Hungary, and mark the Day of the New Bread.
Brussels could soon decide on differing quality labelling
Ministry of Agriculture, August 22, 2017 2:59 PM
“The Ministry of Agriculture would like to set things straight with regard to product labelling and the trademark market as part of the Government’s twenty-point action plan aimed at improving food quality and increasing consumer awareness”, the Ministry’s Minister of State for Food Chain Supervision Róbert Zsigó said in a statement for Hungarian daily Magyar Idők.
NFCSO finds another batch of fipronil-contaminated eggs
Ministry of Agriculture, August 22, 2017 2:59 PM
The laboratory of the National Food Chain Safety Office (NFCSO) has found another batch of eggs contaminated with fipronil, with an identification number 3HU1503T03/4, during the course of the targeted testing of eggs and egg products ordered in early August. The food safety authority has immediately begun investigations into the source and method of contamination, in addition to which it has ordered the eggs to be withdrawn from the market.
Agricultural technology cooperation with Kazakhstan
Ministry of Agriculture, August 21, 2017 9:48 AM
“Agriculture could be the engine of Kazakh-Hungarian economic cooperation”, Minister of Agriculture Sándor Fazekas said in Astana following discussions on agricultural issues affecting the two countries with Kazakhstan’s First Vice-Minister of Agriculture Kairat Aituganov.