Nagy István: a campaign to be launched to encourage honey consumption

A campaign will be launched to encourage domestic honey consumption, which is currently only 7,000 tons per annum of 20,000 tonnes per capita – Nagy István, the Minister of Agriculture told at a press conference in Budapest.

The campaign promoting honey consumption will be held in early December within the cooperation of the Ministry of Agriculture (AM), the National Association of Hungarian Beekeepers (OMME), the National Chamber of Agriculture (NAK) and the Agrarian Marketing Center (AMC). The minister said that average amount of honey was produced this year by the beekeepers, compared to the previous years. Honey produced is of high quality. (MTI)