News and articles
                    This year may bring record wheat harvest
                    
                        
																								Date: 2014-07-14 09:33:21
												                    
				
                Syngenta hosted its traditional plant health solutions show in Dalmand and Hajdúböszörmény with more than 1,000 farmer participants, this time focusing on corn, spiciferous plants, sunflower and rapeseed. Managing director...
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                    Hundeola Stahl goes to Tatabánya
                    
                        
																								Date: 2014-07-14 09:24:12
												                    
				
                Hundeola Stahl Kft. leaves Tata and goes Tatabánya, where the company is going to invest HUF 180 million in building a new production hall. The company manufactures stainless steel tanks...
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                    Wine ‘fingerprints’ are being taken
                    
                        
																								Date: 2014-07-14 09:21:54
												                    
				
                A consortium led by Data-Press Kft. was granted HUF 670 million from the Research and Technological Innovation Fund for oenology quality control development. Within the framework of a HUF 880-million...
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                    Which conditions are necessary for sustainable growth?
                    
                        
																								Date: 2014-07-14 08:30:06
												                    
				
                Trade magazin and Chain Bridge Club’s first Business Dinner of the year was organised on 29 May. This time the guests were Márton Nagy, managing director of the Central Bank...
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                    The spirit and beer market is in Brazilian mood
                    
                        
																								Date: 2014-07-11 11:50:59
												                    
				
                The Ballantine’s Brasil is preparing for the soccer finals, the Havana Club for festivals, while the Miller will enter the club scene again the HTX Advertising & Event makes seasonal...
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                    The government supports the Bonafarm group with 1.46 billion HUF
                    
                        
																								Date: 2014-07-11 11:47:20
												                    
				
                The government, on the basis of an individual decision, supports the construction of Bonafarm Group’s new slaughterhouse with 1.46 billion HUF in Mohács. The total cost of the project is...
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                    According to the president of the Pálinka National Council, a more efficient marketing would be needed to increase the awareness of pálinka abroad
                    
                        
																								Date: 2014-07-11 11:46:01
												                    
				
                A more efficient marketing would be needed to increase the awareness of pálinka abroad in order to increase exports, because pálinka is only widely known in the neighboring countries –...
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                    KSH: consumer prices fell by 0.3 percent in June
                    
                        
																								Date: 2014-07-11 11:45:55
												                    
				
                In June this year, consumer prices fell by 0.3 percent, compared to a year before, while compared with the previous month increased by 0.1 percent – the Central Statistics Office...
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                    Heineken presents the country's best bartender
                    
                        
																								Date: 2014-07-11 11:40:54
												                    
				
                Harai István, the bartender of the Promenád in Budapest can represent Hungary in the world finals of the Heineken Star Serve competition in Amsterdam. The Hungarian bartenders has a good...
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                    Hungarians are eating healthier
                    
                        
																								Date: 2014-07-11 11:38:58
												                    
				
                The Hungarian population consumes much less sugar and fat now than seven years ago. A slow, gradual shift can be experienced in the Hungarian food consumption in the direction towards...
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                    Save the Hungarian sheeps!
                    
                        
																								Date: 2014-07-11 10:55:53
												                    
				
                The Gödöllő-based National Agricultural Research and Innovation Centre has won the public procurement of the Hungarian Sheep and Goat Breeder Association entitled “Preservation of native animal species. The value of...
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                    Győr Liqueur Company turns to premium pálinkas
                    
                        
																								Date: 2014-07-11 09:24:45
												                    
				
                Having invested HUF 150 million in technological development in the last few years, Győri Likőripari Zrt. now focuses on product and brand development. The company will come out with special...
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                    Hundreds of millions for agricultural education
                    
                        
																								Date: 2014-07-11 09:22:31
												                    
				
                The Agricultural and Rural Development Agency (MVH) confirmed the payment of more than HUF 685 million supporting educational programmes financed from the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD). Financial...
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                    Leader support from a 607 million forint budget
                    
                        
																								Date: 2014-07-11 09:19:58
												                    
				
                The Agricultural and Rural Development Agency (MVH) has already given green light to financing 214 applicants with HUF 607 million within the framework of the Leader programme. In the 2007-2013...
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                    The Nébih  pays particular attention to watermelon
                    
                        
																								Date: 2014-07-10 11:40:25
												                    
				
                The Hungarian melon is available in the domestic stores since the beginning of July. The National Food Chain Safety Office (Nébih) pays special attention to the check of summer seasonal...
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                    The NAK supports the Hungarian milk
                    
                        
																								Date: 2014-07-10 11:35:17
												                    
				
                The National Association of Agricultural Economics (NAK) agrees with the aims of the dairy farmers, to create fair market conditions on the dairy market. It is not acceptable that imported...
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                    METRO’s birthday flag around the world
                    
                        
																								Date: 2014-07-10 11:32:34
												                    
				
                METRO’s birthday flag began its journey around the world from METRO’S Düsseldorf-based center. The flag returns to the international 50th birthday party in October after visiting 28 different countries and...
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                    Cofidis: More and more people would use loans
                    
                        
																								Date: 2014-07-10 11:30:24
												                    
				
                The negative attitude towards lending has been reduced, compared to last year – the first-quarterly results of the Cofidis Credit Monitor reveals. More and more people consider the loan as...
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                    The products of SPAR are already available in Velence
                    
                        
																								Date: 2014-07-10 11:28:26
												                    
				
                The new supermarket of the SPAR Magyarország Kft. opened its gates in the area of the Velence Korzó és Szabadstrand on 10 July under 47 Tópart street. The modern store...
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                    The Bull's Blood Feast in Eger is waiting for the guests with a more than a hundred types of wines
                    
                        
																								Date: 2014-07-10 11:27:52
												                    
				
                More than a hundred types of wines can be tasted at the Bull's Blood Feast in Eger, that begins on Thursday. At the four-day event, in addition to the Bull’s...
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                    VinCE Balaton: Wines, tastings and concerts for four days
                    
                        
																								Date: 2014-07-10 11:25:38
												                    
				
                The VinCE Balaton Wine Festival awaits its guests with the wines of dozens of wineries, quality gastronomic exhibitors and free concerts. The VinCE Balaton Wine Festival that is the accompanying...
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                    The highest average yield of autumn wheat is expected in Tolna county
                    
                        
																								Date: 2014-07-10 11:20:05
												                    
				
                According to the datas of the Ministry of Agriculture, the highest expected average yield of autumn wheat and rapeseed will be in Tolna county. In Tolna the quarter of the...
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                    Peach Festival in Boldogkőváralja
                    
                        
																								Date: 2014-07-10 11:00:58
												                    
				
                This weekend, the Gönci Barack Feast will be held for the third time in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County on Saturday and Sunday. At the festival held during the weekend apricots goodies –...
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                    More than one billion forints for winemakers’ technological development
                    
                        
																								Date: 2014-07-10 09:23:43
												                    
				
                The Agricultural and Rural Development Agency (MVH) has earmarked more than HUF 1.32 billion for subsidising winemaking facilities’ technological modernisation, in order to preserve the competitiveness of Hungarian wines in...
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                    Agricultural investment speeding up
                    
                        
																								Date: 2014-07-10 09:21:43
												                    
				
                Negyedik negyedéve folytatódott a beruházások növekedése az idei első három hónapban – állítja a KSH. Az eddigi legnagyobb, előző negyedévi 14,9 százalékos növekedés ütemét is jelentősen túllépve a beruházások volumene...
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                    FruitVeb: This year's fruit crop can be one million tonnes
                    
                        
																								Date: 2014-07-09 12:20:24
												                    
				
                This year's fruit crop in Hungary can reach one million tonnes – Mártonffy Béla, president of the Hungarian Fruit and Vegetable Interprofessional Organisation (FruitVeB) told MTI on Wednesday. He added...
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                    We love fish but rarely buy
                    
                        
																								Date: 2014-07-09 12:12:35
												                    
				
                Healthy, light, protein-rich – these come to mind about fish to the majority of Hungarians, 32 percent of them specially fond of fish dishes. However, the most recent survey on...
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                    The Ministry of Agriculture developed measures to treat the sour market surpluses
                    
                        
																								Date: 2014-07-09 12:10:22
												                    
				
                The Ministry of Agriculture (FM) by involving the participants of the sector has developed the necessary measures to manage the sour market tensions. The Ministry of Agriculture redeployed the additional...
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                    Economic growth may be close to three percent in Hungary this year
                    
                        
																								Date: 2014-07-09 12:05:08
												                    
				
                Hungary's economic growth can reach three percent this year, which will significantly above the average for the euro zone’s GDP growth of 1.1 percent. The basis of the domestic recovery,...
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                    FrieslandCampina’s new dessert plant was handed over in Mátészalka
                    
                        
																								Date: 2014-07-09 11:32:34
												                    
				
                The new dessert plant of the Dutch-owned FrieslandCampina Hungária Zrt. was handed over on Wednesday, in Mátészalka Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county. The investment cost 650 million HUF. At the ceremony, Zsigó Róbert,...
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