Ministry of Agriculture: the age of investment is coming in domestic aquaculture

By: Trademagazin editor Date: 2022. 04. 20. 11:21

The Ministry of Agriculture (AM) is working to further increase the annual fish consumption per capita, therefore it pays special attention to the quality issues and recognition of Hungarian fish products, said Erdős Norbert, State Secretary for Food Chain Supervision at Panarini Hungária kft. according to a briefing by the ministry on Wednesday.

The Secretary of State said that 18 billion HUF would be spent on the development of the sector under the Hungarian Fisheries Operational Program Plus. The first calls will be launched this year to help implement the program. Calls for investment are expected to be available in 2023. The aim of the program is to modernize the existing aquaculture and fish processing enterprises, increase their competitiveness and create new processors, the communication said. (MTI)