Hungary and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization are celebrating the ten-year anniversary of the FAO's European and Central Asian regional office and Joint Service Centre moving to Hungary. The event, entitled "FAO 10 years in Hungary", was officially opened by Minister of Agriculture Sándor Fazekas.
“Plant protection is a key area of agriculture” - said Parliamentary State Secretary István Nagy said at a session of the Plant Protection Committee at the Ministry of Agriculture.
“There are several processes and preparations available to preserve soil moisture so farmers can cultivate crops in areas where there is no possibility of irrigation”, Minister of Agriculture Sándor Fazekas said at the "Can drought damage be reduced?" agriculture conference on Tuesday.
The future of Hungarian agriculture and the livelihood of farmers depends to a great extent on to what extent we are able transpose and learn the most advanced information technology results and various solutions that assure efficient, modern and more economical production”, Minister of Agriculture Sándor Fazekas said on Hungarian M1 television’s and Kossuth Radio’s morning programs.
‘Hungarian agriculture is one of the fastest growing agrarian sectors in Europe, and in the last 8 years it has grown by over fifty percent and created more than 70,000 jobs”, Minister of Agriculture Sándor Fazekas said at the launch of a publication by the Alliance for Hungarian Agriculture.
“Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz will be receiving Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in Vienna on 30 January”, the Austrian Chancellery confirmed to the APA news agency on Tuesday.
“Hungarian oils and gas company MOL has been awarded new hydrocarbon exploration and extraction licences in Norway, meaning it now has permits with relation to 20 hydrocarbon fields, as a result of which it could significantly reinforce the position of Europe’s hydrocarbon market”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a telephone statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Tuesday following negotiations in Tromsø, Norway.
At a meeting held in the Parliament Building, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Aleksandar Boricic, President of the European Volleyball Confederation (CEV) and Executive Vice-President of the International Volleyball Federation, spoke about the results achieved by Hungary in volleyball, the system created for subsidising the sport in Hungary and the European Championships to be held next year, Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief informed Hungarian news agency MTI.
According to the parliamentary state secretary of the Ministry of Justice, the requirement for organisations assisting illegal migration to register in the event of the passage of the Stop Soros legislative package serves enhanced transparency.
Taking action against migration and organisations which organise and finance migration is a moral and political duty of the government, the Minister of State for Government Communication said on the public service television news channel M1 on Tuesday.