Focus on strengthening direct producer sales

By: STA Date: 2024. 11. 22. 10:30

Sustainability is a key issue in all areas of our lives today. From an economic and social perspective, the development of food supply chains that, while strengthening the local economy and rural communities, offer reliable, quality food directly to consumers with as few intermediaries as possible, contributes significantly to this. This is the aim of the call for applications entitled Development of Short Supply Chains (SSC), co-financed by the European Union, and the Ministry of Agriculture is waiting for opinions until November 30, 2024.

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By establishing close geographical and social ties between producers, processors and consumers, supporting SSC cooperation encourages the development of cooperation aimed at ensuring a fair livelihood for producers and ensuring consumers access to high-quality, domestically sourced food. An important aspect is that local production and sales strengthen the local economy, create and preserve local jobs, and develop local tourism. It is also important that production systems are more sustainable in small farms, and transport routes are significantly shortened. REL contributes to the preservation of local knowledge and traditions, strengthening trust between producers and consumers.

Participants in the REL cooperation can develop sales forms based on a common project plan with the help of the support

This facilitates producers’ access to a common and direct market, as there is an increasing demand in Hungary for food purchased directly from producers, or at most from one intermediary. An application for support may be submitted by an individual entrepreneur, social cooperative, church or municipal institution, non-profit organization, catering enterprise, enterprise active in public catering or market organization, exclusively in the form of a consortium in which the members are independent of each other. The maximum amount of non-refundable support that can be obtained is HUF 70 million for consortia with at least four members. After the preparation of the call for proposals entitled