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

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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.

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.

MTI