“Auchan’s autumn wine fair offers a selection of almost 100 quality wines. In addition, a national Quality Wine tasting programme is also being launched in which students from wine-making schools supervised by the Ministry of Agriculture will be helping consumer choice”, Sándor Fazekas said in Budaörs at a press conference held to mark the launch of the supermarket chain’s autumn wine fair.
“One of the fundamental targets of the Hungarian Government is to make rural areas, villages and sub-regions inhabited by Hungarians competitive and for the countryside to become one of the engines of the nation”, Deputy State Secretary for International Relations Katalin Tóth said in Zenta (Senta), Ukraine at an official event organised to mark the 20th anniversary of horticultural engineer training in the city and the 15th jubilee of the founding of the Horticulturalists Association.
“Hungary views Mongolia as a land of opportunity”, Deputy Minister of Agriculture István Nagy stressed during a meeting with Mongolian Minister of Agriculture Purev Sergelen in Budapest.
Deputy Minister of Agriculture István Nagy held a meeting with the Russian Federation’s First Deputy Minister of Agriculture Evgeny Gromyko on Tuesday in Tula. During his two-day visit to Russia, Mr. Nagy took part in the inauguration ceremony of a new Hungarian feed premix plant and attended the opening of the “Golden Autumn” agriculture expo.
“The Ministry of Agriculture places priority attention on maintaining agrarian relations with cross-border Hungarians, on promoting hand-made Hungarian products and on helping them reach the market”, Deputy State Secretary Katalin Tóth said at the opening ceremony of the 4th Hungarian Cheese Show in Nyiregyhaza, Northeast Hungary.
The Environment Ministers of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) met in Paris on 28-29 September to discuss climate policy, water management and food waste. Hungary was represented by Deputy Minister of Agriculture István Nagy.
“Cooperation between the two countries is based on traditionally good intergovernmental relations”, Deputy State Secretary Katalin Tóth said in Topolya (Bačka Topola) at the opening ceremony of the regional Agriculture and Farming Expo.
Hungary’s Deputy Minister of Agriculture István Nagy and First Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation Evgeny Vasilievich Gromyko met in Budapest to discuss the state of Hungarian-Russian agriculture and food industry cooperation and assess further opportunities for expansion.
EU Agriculture Ministers discussed the issue paper on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) after 2020 prepared by the Dutch EU Presidency at an informal meeting on 31 May.
Minister of State for Environmental Affairs, Agricultural Development and Hungaricums Zsolt V. Németh represented Hungary at the high-level phase of the 2nd United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA2) in Nairobi on 26-27 May 2016.