These data are required for the 2022 damage mitigation allowance application

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In 2022, the damaged producers will be able to submit their application for the damage mitigation allowance in the usual way, electronically from the beginning of November, on the website of the Hungarian Treasury. The application can be submitted and updated several times within the submission deadline, but the Treasury and the agricultural damage assessment body will consider the last application submitted by 24:00 on November 30, 2022. A decision on the application for the damage mitigation allowance will be made by the end of March 2023 at the latest, and the certified damaged farmers will receive the damage mitigation allowance until then. In the application for the damage mitigation benefit, the current year and reference yield value of the plant culture can be established using the specified reference prices. In the case of crops for which the price band was specified in addition to the reference price, a price other than the reference price, falling within the price band and certified by an invoice or production contract can also be used for the calculation. About this, as well as the submission of the application, in which the village farmers also provide assistance. If the producer does not have his own yield data for one of the years of the reference period for a plant crop, then to determine the reference yield, the 2017-2021. annual average yield data can be used. The Ministry of Agriculture draws attention to the fact that the 2017-2021 in addition to the average yield data for the year 2022, the average yield data for 2022 are also available, which must only be used in the application for the damage mitigation benefit if the producer does not have his own yield data for this year because the crop harvest level does not yet exceed 50 percent. The published reference prices and average yield data for the reference period may be revised by the Ministry of Agriculture (e.g. based on the final KSH data). The reference data revised and modified in this context are only relevant from the point of view of the damage mitigation allowance for the current year and do not entitle the producer to subsequently modify his application for the previous damage mitigation allowance.

The basis of the damage mitigation benefit is the difference between the current year’s return value and the reference return value, i.e. the decrease in return value (loss of production value)

The amount of the damage mitigation benefit can be up to 80 percent of the yield loss, if the injured farmer has adequate agricultural insurance. The agricultural producer is entitled to half of the damage mitigation allowance, if at least half of the plant-level reference yield value – for the given damage mitigation year – is not affected by drought, downpour, hail, agricultural flood, spring frost, autumn frost, winter frost or storm typical of the crop. agricultural insurance with a scope covering the event of damage.

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