The Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2), which is jointly organised by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and World Health Organisation (WHO) of the United Nations, is being held at the FAO Headquarters in Rome on 19-21 November, 2014. The first Conference was held in 1992.
Minister of Agriculture Sándor Fazekas met businesspeople from the Chinese Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong over the weekend to discuss further opportunities for the marketing of Hungarian food industry products.
“The way is open for exports of Hungarian beef to China”, Minister of Agriculture Sándor Fazekas announced on Thursday in Beijing after signing an agreement to this effect with Chinese Minister of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine Zhi Shuping.
Certification procedures for pork and poultry products have successfully come to a close, Minister of Agriculture Sándor Fazekas, who continued his trip to China with a visit to the Special Administrative Region on Friday, announced from Hong Kong.
Minister of Agriculture Sándor Fazekas held negotiations in Shanghai on increasing Hungarian exports to China, where he also opened a large wine expo in representation of Hungary.
On Monday, the Ministry of Agriculture’s Deputy State Secretary for International Relations, Katalin Tóth, received Deputy Minister for Agriculture and Forestry Phouang Parisak Pravongviengkham of the People’s Democratic Republic of Laos.
“Hungary’s priority goals include providing high-quality food to domestic consumers and supporting food processing and labour-intensive sectors, primarily through promoting family farming”, Minister of Agriculture Sándor Fazekas said in Rome at the Global Dialogue organised to assess and close the UN International Year of Family Farming.
A press conference was held in Budapest on Thursday to mark World Food Day, with representatives from the Ministry of Agriculture, the FAO and non-governmental organisations.
The Hungarian Government will do everything possible to protect the Land Act, which includes several elements from the laws of other European countries, Minister of State for Public Administration Attila István Simon of the Ministry of Agriculture said on Thursday in Budapest.
Minister of Agriculture Sándor Fazekas launched the special electronic money transfer system for the distribution of SAPS payments and special milk funding on Thursday, at a press conference held at Solum Zrt. in Komárom. A total of HUF 341.1bn (EUR 1.11bn) in SAPS payments may be distributed with reference to 2014 applications. During the first stage of payments, more than HUF 47bn will be disbursed to some 102,000 applicants.