Approximately 12.4 billion euros can be spent on the agricultural sector until 2020

Approximately 12.4 billion euros European Union support is available for the development of the agricultural sector until 2020, 1.9 billion euros more than in the previous period – Czerván György Minister of State of the Ministry of Agriculture announced on Thursday in Keszthely, at the potato industrial forum held at the Georgicon Faculty of the Pannon University.

Czerván György mentioned the support of the development of the horticultural and livestock sectors as important tasks among the objectives, as well as the development of food industrial capacity.

It is planned that 40 billion HUF will be spent on irrigation development investments, so the amount of irrigated land can be increased to 150 thousand hectares from the current 100 thousand hectares. In the short terms, however, the most important task is to prepare the stakeholders to be capable to draw on and use the available EU funds – the Minister of State added. (MTI)