AM State Secretary: the new KAP strategy serves both sustainability and the interests of Hungarian farmers

By: STA Date: 2022. 11. 09. 10:26

In the Hungarian strategic plan of the Common Agricultural Policy (KAP), the Hungarian government concluded substantive agreements with Brussels that both serve the environmental sustainability goals and the interests of Hungarian farmers – stated the State Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture (AM) responsible for agriculture and rural development. at the handover of his plant conditioning plant in Beszterec, Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, on Wednesday.

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Zsolt Feldman spoke about the fact that the new programming period until 2027 contains many novelties for Hungarian agriculture, but also requires that the Hungarian farmer “bring out his best adaptability, his openness to renewal and his innovative part in the good sense”, since with these features, it is possible to comply with the new regulations and to continue farming more effectively than before. From the beginning of next year, the funds provided for agriculture will already arrive in the new subsidy distribution system, and the magnitude of direct subsidies for the income security of Hungarian farmers has not decreased despite the fact that the funds allocated to the EU’s common agricultural policy have decreased overall – reminded Zsolt Feldman. He noted that the HUF 2,465 billion direct support calculated at the planning exchange rate, which can be used until 2027, is a huge amount for agriculture. He explained that the framework of the rules for use has changed compared to the previous cycle, one of the most important elements of which is that approximately 14 percent of the resources available to small and medium-sized farms will be redistributed through redistributive support. The endowments previously known as basic and greening subsidies will merge and continue to operate under a common set of conditions. He added that this raises the level of conditions that previously only had to be met for the basic support, and that the agro-ecological program will be built on this, which includes environmental and climate protection aspects that are more prominent than before.

The introduction of the electronic management diary will be a change, which will be a basic tool for monitoring the fulfillment of environmental conditions, the relevant detailed regulation is now being prepared by the Ministry of Finance, the state secretary said. The basic amount of area-based subsidies is expected to be around 147 euros (almost 60 thousand forints) per hectare. The amount of redistribution support for small and medium-sized farms can be 80 euros (more than 30 thousand forints) per hectare, or 40 euros in addition to the basic support, depending on the size of the area.

Péter Vajda, the managing director of Phylazonit Kft., which deals with the production of bacterial fertilizers, told MTI about the investment in Bészterec that the company built a new plant capable of producing soil and plant conditioners as well as foliar fertilizer with its own resources of half a billion forints, during the development in the company’s existing bacteria preparation factory also carried out a smaller capacity expansion investment.

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