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Co-op launches a ‘Freeze Me’ label to cut milk waste
Co-op is introducing a ‘freeze me’ label to its own-brand milk products in a bid to cut down on 70,000 tonnes of waste a year. The new on-pack message from...
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EU Wheat Exports Start Strongly
European Union wheat is being scooped up at the start of the 2022/23 crop season as importers profit from a pullback in prices from records and seek alternatives to Ukrainian...
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Benchmark FAO Food Price Index shows dip in international prices of cereals, vegetable oils and sugar
The barometer for world food commodity prices declined slightly in June for the third consecutive month, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported today. The FAO Food...
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Irrigation will become more and more necessary
In Hungary, farmers used an average of 1,393 m3 of water per hectare in 2021, 23 percent more than in 2020, if they irrigated their land – agrarszektor.hu reports. There...
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France becomes first EU country to ban plant-based meat terms
France, the largest beef producer in the European Union, will ban the use of meat names such as “steak” and “sausage” on plant-based foods from October, according to a new...
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Ministry of Agriculture: Hungary asks Brussels to lift mowing restrictions
Due to the drought situation, the Ministry of Agriculture is turning to the European Commission for the sake of the participants in the agri-environmental management program – Minister of Agriculture...
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KSH: the official website of the 2022 census has been launched
In time for World Population Day, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) launched the website www.nepszamlalas2022.hu for the census taking place between October 1 and November 28 this year. In its...
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Retail sales fell in May in the Czech Republic
Retail sales in the Czech Republic fell by 6.9 percent year-on-year in May, after a 6.9 percent increase in April, the Czech Statistical Office announced on Monday in Prague. The...
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Romania’s foreign trade deficit increased by almost 44 percent in the first five months
Romania’s foreign trade balance deficit increased by almost 44 percent to 12.740 billion euros in the first five months of this year, compared to the same period of last year,...
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Poison or trap?
Attila Zámbó, category manager of market leader Bábolna Bio Kft. told our magazine that sales of insecticides and insect repellents represented a value of HUF 6.08bn in 2021. Value sales...
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(HU) Mostantól még több árkedvezmény jár a hűséges Tesco vásárlóknak
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A quarter of Hungarian children are overweight and one in ten are malnourished
Országos lett a Magyar Dietetikusok Országos Szövetségének (MDOSZ) GYERE® – Gyermekek Egészsége Programja, ami az Auchan Alapítvány támogatásából 24 hazai település általános iskolájában indult el. A programban több mint 5000 általános...
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One in two dogs is overweight: what can we do to help feed our pets?
One in two dogs is overweight. According to recent studies by the Waltham Petcare Science Institute in Britain, which has been around for 50 years, obesity can shorten a dog’s...
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(HU) Vízhiány és szárazság: vajon mit okoz még a klímaváltozás hazánkban?
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First consumer research results from Hungary about plant-based foods
Recently Danone, Nestlé and Unilever have published the results of their consumer surveys on what Hungarian shoppers think about plant-based foods. There are differences in the numbers, but in general...
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(HU) A fogyasztókat is bevonja zöld stratégiája alkalmazásába a Westend
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Hair care goes way beyond hygiene
Those days when washing hair was a simple hygiene and care routine are behind us, today it is a real beauty care practice. Zsófia Gózon-Karajz, L’Oréal Magyarország Kft.’s trade marketing...
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(HU) Ideje kikapcsolni: testi-lelki betegségeket előzhet meg a nyári digitális detox
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(HU) Hová tűnt Vénusz, és hogy került egy üveg szörp Botticelli világhírű festményére?
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Magazine: One for the baby…and then more for the baby!
In comparison with 2020, the baby food market grew by more than 10% in 2021 – wet baby food sales were up 9% and dry baby food expanded by 13%...
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People fear inflation the most, globally
Ipsos’ What Worries the World survey tracks public opinion on the most important social and political issues across 27 countries today, drawing on over 10 years of data to place...
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Up to 828 million people are suffering from starvation according to FAO
Between 702 and 828 million people in the world faced hunger in 2021. This is about 180 million more people since the beginning of the 2030 Agenda, with much of...
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Hot summer with ice cream
The ice cream market, which stagnated during the pandemic years, has barely recovered, and it already has to deal with another, even more complex crisis, pointed out the Association of...
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AM: despite the drought, the wheat harvest covers domestic needs
Despite the drought, the wheat harvest covers domestic needs, but much less is exported than before, said the state secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture (AM) responsible for agriculture and...
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KSH: consumer prices increased by 11.7 percent in June
In June, consumer prices exceeded a year earlier by an average of 11.7 percent. In the past year, the prices of food and durable consumer goods have risen the most,...
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FruitVeb: high-quality melons to be produced domestically this year
Although the unusual heat slightly reduces the yield, thanks to the sunny weather, the melons produced in the country promise to be excellent – read the summary published on the...
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The new Pécs market hall has opened
The new market hall in Pécs, built with 3.8 billion HUF, opened its doors to customers on Friday, the municipality informed MTI. In their announcement, they wrote: in the one-story,...
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Microplastics have also been found in the meat, milk and blood of farm animals
For the first time, microplastic contamination was found in beef and pork, milk, and the blood of cows and pigs, The Guardian wrote on Friday based on Dutch research. In...
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Henkel has successfully closed the acquisition of Shiseido’s Professional hair business in Asia-Pacific
Henkel has successfully closed the acquisition of Shiseido’s Professional hair business in Asia-Pacific. With this acquisition, Henkel becomes a leading player in the hair professional business in the region. By...
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