FM: campaign to encourage consumption and purchase of Hungarian apple has started

A nationwide promotional campaign encouraging the consumption and purchase of Hungarian apple was launched – the Deputy Minister of State of the Ministry of Agriculture (FM) announced on Thursday at a press conference in Budapest.

Feldman Zsolt emphasized that the apple has the largest cultivation area among the fruits in Hungary. Annually an average of 550-600 thousand tons of apples are produced, of which 30 percent is apple for nutrition, while the 70 percent goes to industrial purposes – he added. The campaign was established with the collaboration of the Agricultural Marketing Center, the Ministry of Agriculture (FM) and the National Chamber of Agriculture (NAK). (MTI)