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Changing price level
Date: 2014-09-15 08:52:18
The Agricultural Economics Research Institute (AKI) keeps monitoring and publishing the world’s agri-food prices and trends. Their latest report reveals that at the Budapest Wholesales Market on week 31 the...
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International company on a cooperative basis
Date: 2014-09-12 23:10:23
Dutch-owned FrieslandCampina is the world’s biggest dairy company that operates on a cooperative basis. It has 80 factories all over the world, 2 of which are located in Hungary. FrieslandCampina’s...
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New FrieslandCampina production facility starts production
Date: 2014-09-12 23:04:27
Production has officially started in FrieslandCampina Hungária Zrt.’s new HUF 650-million production hall in Mátészalka. Róbert Zsigó, state secretary for food chain supervision of the Ministry of Agriculture opened the...
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KSH: Agricultural producer prices fell 5.1 percent in July
Date: 2014-09-12 12:00:58
In 2014, the agricultural producer prices declined by 5.1 percent, compared to the same period of 2013- the Central Statistical Office (KSH) reported on Friday. The price of plant products...
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Get to know the everyday difficulties of disabled people in the Tesco car parks
Date: 2014-09-12 11:55:50
Five stores of Tesco will host a social sensitizing program series, launched by the Főkefe Közhasznú és Nonprofit Kft.. The roadshow will take place in eight cities (including Budapest). The...
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It is a dignity to be the host of the Coop Rally
Date: 2014-09-12 11:52:33
The Coop Rally, which is the largest annual muster of th e COOP supermarket chain and domestic food processors was organized for the ninth time. The strengthening the market for...
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Cash register raid: the NAV closed restaurants and a café
Date: 2014-09-12 11:50:22
The National Tax and Customs Authority closed two restaurants and a café, due to irregularities in several occasions. The inspectors of the tax authority held raids with an intensity never...
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Kövesdy Tamás joined to the team of Metro
Date: 2014-09-12 11:49:26
Kövesdy Tamás continues his career at METRO; the HR director previoulsy worked at he Pfizer Gyógyszerkereskedelmi Kft. (Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Ltd.). From 1 September Kövesdy Tamás is the new HR director...
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Only a few farmers have have checked in for the temporary support
Date: 2014-09-12 11:20:38
The European Commission opened extraordinary and temporary support measures to the producers of some kind of fruits and vegetables with a budget of 125 million euros in order to help...
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The Praktiker is looking for new regions for mini DIY stores
Date: 2014-09-12 11:02:16
The two-year test period for the mini DIY stores has expired at Praktiker. According to the results of the evaluation period, the concept is more functional at other regions. So...
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The president of the Agriculture and Rural Development Agency has resigned
Date: 2014-09-12 11:00:09
Palkovics Péter, the president of the Agricultural and Rural Development Agency (MVH), resigned on 10 September 2014. He justified the step with the end of the fiscal budget cycle of...
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More livestock
Date: 2014-09-12 09:37:59
In the first half of 2014 Hungary’s pig stock improved by 82,000 and the cattle stock increased by 5,000 – reported the Central Statistical Office (KSH). In the middle of...
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FruitVeB plans cooperation with Milan wholesale market
Date: 2014-09-12 09:35:28
Hungary’s Interprofessional Organisation for Fruit and Vegetable (FruitVeB) and Milan wholesale market Sogemi are negotiating the conditions of a future cooperation. Hungary’s fruit and vegetable sector aims at increasing production...
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(HU) Az év legsikeresebb promóciója 2014 szakmai nap és díjátadó
Date: 2014-09-11 17:08:47
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(HU) Promócióverseny pályázati adatlap 2014
Date: 2014-09-11 16:57:04
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Hungary’s favorite fish is the carp
Date: 2014-09-11 11:40:59
The carp is the clear winner of the fish popularity contest – Hungarians like carp the most among the fish. The survey on the domestic fish consumption also revealed that...
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The future of the region's future COOP
Date: 2014-09-11 11:35:59
The future of the COOP Group and the future of the Hungarian countryside are closely linked: development is only imaginable with the retention of jobs in rural areas, with the...
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The EU applications can get the green light
Date: 2014-09-11 11:35:37
“After the new finalized EU partnership agreement, the next step will be the adoption of the operational programs. The specific call for applications is expected to be released in the...
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The Varga Winery operates a wine bottle collection system
Date: 2014-09-11 11:33:24
The Winery Varga will only bottle its wines into returnable bottles with own logo. This is an environmentally friendly and cost-effective solution, which is a competitive advantage against foreign products...
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The Dr. Organic is multiple Superbrand Award winner
Date: 2014-09-11 11:32:04
The Dr. Organic brand won the Superbrand award for the second time in 2014. The Dr. Organic brand is known for its natural beauty product line of bioactive ingredients the...
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The NAV is welcomed as a regular in the patisserie
Date: 2014-09-11 11:30:44
It is a beautiful tradition that the regulars get their mug at restaurants. In the Auguszt patisserie in Budapest a new name was painnted on the mug: the NAV also...
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Develop your coffee brewing to be perfect!
Date: 2014-09-11 11:12:31
Everyone can make coffee, but only a few know how they derive the flavors and fragrances out of the coffee beans with a maximum potential. “The best flavor and aroma...
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Generational change is taking place in the Hungarian agriculture
Date: 2014-09-11 11:05:02
More than two hundred people participated at the events of the Young Agricultural Professionals' Club, that were organized by Syngenta and were held in Balatonszárszó, Kecskemét and Hajdúszoboszló in recent...
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The environmental burden of the households decreased by a quarter in the ÖkoKör
Date: 2014-09-11 11:00:09
The household water and energy consumption, as well as the waste production of the 650 households that are taking part in the ÖkoKör reduced by about a quarter since 2010....
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This year’s wheat is at a safe place
Date: 2014-09-11 10:13:20
Farmers just about completed the harvest by 1 August all over Hungary. Data by the Grain Producer’s Association – Hungary (GOSZ) show that average yields were as forecasted in the...
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Fruit harvest may be 1 million tons
Date: 2014-09-11 10:10:34
This year’s fruit harvest may reach 1 million tons – according to a survey conducted by Hungary’s Interprofessional Organisation for Fruit and Vegetable (FruitVeB). The reasons behind this are the...
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Government subsidy for building Bonafarm slaughterhouse
Date: 2014-09-11 09:15:07
The government decided to support the building of Bonafarm group’s new slaughterhouse in Mohács with HUF 1.46 billion. Total cost of the development, started by Mcs Vágóhíd Kft., will reach...
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Supply chain management and technology share a common future
Date: 2014-09-10 23:01:06
A global IBM survey asked logistics and supply chain managers about how technology is changing their work. The study has been conducted with the participation of more than 200 managers...
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Developments may make rural tourism competitive
Date: 2014-09-10 22:51:15
Géza Szabó, vice president of the National Association for Village and Farm Tourism (FATOSZ) has called attention to the importance of development projects, thematic routes and training programmes in order...
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Thirty percent of the Hungarian fruit and vegetable exports would be transported to Russia
Date: 2014-09-10 11:50:47
The Hungarian producers would like to transport 30 percent of the Hungarian fruit and vegetable sector’s export to Russia by 2020; therefore the Russian embargo has extremely negative effect on...
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