The government has adopted a development strategy for the food industry

The government has accepted the Hungarian food industry’s medium and long-term development strategy – announced Fazekas Sándor, Minister of Agriculture at a press conference in Budapest on Wednesday. The government treats the food industry as a strategic sector and as priority area – he added.

In the next five years 300 billion HUF development funds will be available for the Hungarian food industry: 200 billion HUF from the sources of the Rural Development Programme funds and 100 billion HUF from the sources of the Operational Programme for Economic Development and Innovation (GINOP). (MTI)