AM: many applications for farmers, payment of agricultural subsidies is being completed at a good pace

By: STA Date: 2025. 03. 18. 09:00

The payment of agricultural subsidies is progressing faster than last year, area-based subsidies are arriving at farmers at a steady pace; after the 2024 unified applications, the Hungarian State Treasury has already disbursed more than 518 billion forints under 27 legal titles to almost 153 thousand affected people – announced Zsolt Feldman, State Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture (AM) in Mórahalom, according to the ministry’s statement on Friday.

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Zsolt Feldman announced at the agricultural forum that the State Treasury has already paid 88 percent of the basic subsidy and 95 percent of the redistributive subsidy. Thus, 98 percent of the applicants, 149.5 thousand farmers, have already received funds.

Final payments have been ongoing under various legal titles since the end of March

When the 2024 unified applications were paid, 26 billion forints have been disbursed to almost 12 thousand farmers in Csongrád-Csanád County so far – he added. The State Secretary highlighted that of the almost 2900 billion forints budget for the rural development pillar of the CAP Strategic Plan, 2300 billion forints are provided by the Hungarian government, while EU co-financing amounts to 600 billion forints. According to Zsolt Feldman’s presentation, in the current financing cycle, 34 calls for proposals with a budget of 1347 billion forints have been issued from the CAP rural development framework by March 11. The domestic agriculture is in an intensive application period, with those announced last year and those appearing this year, a total of 73 calls for proposals are helping farmers. In 2025, 40 calls for applications are expected, including for precision farming, agro-forestry systems and crop drying developments, the statement said.

The tender scheme to support young farmers will also arrive this year with a budget of 79 billion forints

In addition, the support decisions expected under the Agri-Environmental Management Programme will be made at the end of April or beginning of May, which 20,000 farmers are waiting for, the state secretary said in the statement. He called the calls popular, citing as an example that significant over-applications were experienced for the investment tender schemes that have been closed so far and are still under review. Businesses submitted support requests that were nearly four times larger than the announced budget amounts, thus approaching 1,800 billion forints. The largest development requests came from the areas of animal husbandry and food processing. Decisions have also been made in the case of the call for tenders for small-scale processing plants, and the first supporting documents were handed over this week, said Zsolt Feldman, according to the Ministry of Agriculture’s press release.

MTI