“Europe’s current honey policy is untenable in view of the fact that it does not afford sufficient protection against imitation honey made under laboratory conditions, coming particularly from Asia, and as a result is totally destroying the European honey market and European honey producers”, Minister of Agriculture István Nagy declared in Brussels on Monday in a statement at a demonstration by Hungarian and Spanish honey farmers.
Tree planting is one of the answers of the Ministry of Agriculture to climate change, Minister of Agriculture István Nagy stated on Friday in Mosonmagyaróvár at the tree planting event of the National Programme for Creating Woodland.
World-wide some 820 million people are starving, and two billion persons suffer from malnutrition. In order to reduce the number of starving people, we must first reduce our food loss and waste, and by doing so we additionally contribute to the responsible management of natural resources and environmental sustainability, Minister of State for Food Chain Supervision Róbert Zsigó stressed at the 46th session of the Committee on World Food Security held in Rome.
16 October is United Nations World Food Day, the motto of which for this year is: “Our Actions ARE Our Future. Healthy Diets for a Zero Hunger World”. To mark World Food Day, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Hungary’s Ministry of Agriculture and the Hungarian Food Bank Association held a joint event in Budapest.
Minister of Agriculture István Nagy received the Republic of Turkey’s Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, India’s Minister of Water Resources, and the Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran in his office on Tuesday. Topics of discussion during the course of bilateral talks with the politicians of these eastern countries included the expansion of trade opportunities and potential areas of cooperation within the field of irrigation, and possible direction for their development.
At a session of the Agriculture and Fisheries Council on 14 October, the agriculture ministers of twenty EU member states, including Hungary, supported a joint statement calling for the preservation of the current level of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) funding during the European Union’s upcoming multiannual financial framework.
The future development of the Common Agricultural Policy and forestry issues were the main topics of the Prague meeting of the agricultural ministers of the Visegrád Cooperation, plus representatives of Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovenia and Romania, which was also attended by the representative of Finland currently holding the EU presidency.
Hungary supports FAO’s goals; several years of cooperation as well as operational projects and scholarship programmes testify to this, among others, the Deputy Minister of Agriculture said on Tuesday at the 41st session of the European Commission on Agriculture of the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Budapest.
Speaking at a meeting of EU agriculture ministers in Helsinki, Hungarian Minister of Agriculture István Nagy drew attention to the fact that farmers must be protected and provided with support to enable them to provide suitable solutions to the challenges posed by climate change.
“The Hungarian Government is continuing the battle for the money of Hungarian farmers. Countries with a traditionally strong agriculture must take joint action in the interests of maintaining the current level of Common Agricultural policy (CAP) funding and assuring simple, farmer-friendly regulations”, Minister of Agriculture István Nagy said following a meeting with French Agriculture Minister Didier Guillaume on Tuesday.