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This year's Buda Castle Wine Festival awaits the guests with playful programs
This year's Buda Castle Wine Festival takes place between 9 and 13 September. The visitors can not only choose from a great selection of the best national and international wines,...
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Vegetarian Festival at the weekend
The 19th Vegetarian Festival will be held on Saturday and Sunday, where professional lectures, cooking classes and tasting will await the visitors to Kőrösi Csoma Sándor Kőbányai Cultural Center. The...
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One of the most important national agricultural organization was transformed
During the fall, the Hungarian Horticulture Propagation Nonprofit Kft. (MKSZ) starts the large national seed sales with a new director. Kasztovszky Zoltán was the former economic director of the Research...
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The chamber guide presenting the rural development program has been published
The new handbook of the National Agricultural Chamber (NAK) is completed. The handbook gives comprehensive and credible information for potential candidates about the new Rural Development Programme. The nearly 100-page...
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142 thousand children in the free summer meal programs
The summer meal program for children ended on Friday in which about 142 thousand children received free meals during the summer vacation – the Ministry of Human Resources (Emmi) announced....
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The first gastro photo-exhibition of the Catering Museum has been opened
The first gastro photo-exhibition of the Trade and Catering Museum (MKVM) has been opened. The exhibition is a selection of photos that were published in the Konyhaművészet culinary magazine between...
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Ministry of Agriculture opens mobile marketplace
A mobile marketplace opened in the Ministry of Agriculture’s building in Kossuth Square. Fresh vegetables and fruits, jams, syrups, honey, smoked meat products, dairy products and pickles can be bought...
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Szallas.hu: looking for the most attractive tourist destinations
Almost 9 thousand domestic and 125 thousand foreign hotels will compete at this year’s Hotel of the Year contest in 2015 – the Szallas.hu portal told MTI. The competition is...
Read moreAgriculture: production prices down 6.2 percent
In June 2015 agricultural production prices decreased by 6.2 percent from the level of June 2014. The price of vegetable products was down 3.6 percent and the price of livestock/products...
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Producers’ cooperatives to be surveyed
NAK and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) are conducting a survey on whether NAK members are ready to start cooperating in various fields. One of the questionnaires is about...
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Meeting of the Visegrád Group’s Cooperation of the Chambers of Agriculture
Representatives met for the second time at the end of June, this time in Brno in the Czech Republic. They discussed the unfair market practices of retail chains and talked...
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Magazine: Kitchen oil expeller
Oil can be gained from all types of oily seed – their use is really trendy in gastronomy these days. Steampunk-style oil press machine The Daily Expeller is manufactured in...
Read moreKSH: accelerated growth in retail sales in June
In June, retail sales rose by 7.2 percent in volume compared with a year before, after the previous month's 4.4 percent increase – the second estimate of the Central Statistical...
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The Nébih found no quality errors in chocolate milks
The National Food Chain Safety Office (Nébih) examined a total of 39 products chocolate milks and drinks. During the examination of the products (19 of chocolate milks and 20 chocolate...
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A tamper-proof product identifier was developed in Miskolc
The Secure Mark (SMark) project of the Miskolc-based Vasbeta Kft. can gain world fame. To develop the tamper-proof product identification system, the company spent more than one billion HUF –...
Read moreThe blending ratio of the wine should be indicated on the bottle
According to a forthcoming regulation amendment, it will be mandatory to indicate the blending ratio of the wine on the wine bottle – Gál Péter, Deputy Minister of State of...
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Let shopping to be Fun! Innovative solutions in the renewed dm shop
The renewed shop of dm is waiting the customers from 18 August on the first floor of the Mammut II. shopping center. The customers in addition to the usual quality...
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Lidl plans to bulid an ice cream plant
Lidl builds a two-storey plant and a cold storage from 200-250 million euros, where the company will produce its private label ice creams from the summer of 2017. The German...
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The MasterChef will soon appear in the loyalty programs of TCC
TCC, the creator and implementor of customer loyalty programs signed an exclusive four-year license agreement with the popular TV show and the brand, MasterChef. Thanks to the agreement the retail...
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The government announces all European Union tenders by mid-2017
The government announces all tenders of the 2014-2020 European Union development cycle until 30 June 2017, in a total of 12 trillion HUF sum – Simon Róbert Balázs Ministerial Commissioner,...
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The University of Szeged and the Pick Szeged Zrt. signed a cooperation agreement
The strategic cooperation agreement includes research, development and education – the University of Szeged told MTI. The University and the company previously worked together in many areas, this document is...
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Syngenta turned down Monsanto again
The leading agrochemicals company Monsanto increased its offer again for Swiss rival Syngenta. The company is reported to have raised its bid to around 46 billion USD. The break-up fee,...
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The sales of tablets decreased globally
According to the most recent projections of the International Data Corporation (IDC) IT and telecommunications market research company, the world market of tablets is shrinking higher than previously projected. Separately,...
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Charity dinner in favor of the Szent Márton kitchen
The Szent Márton kitchen will start in the autumn from the collaboration of the Pannonhalma Abbey and rural restaurants (that gathered for the 7th time). Participating restaurants of the event...
Read moreSpagetti-harvest – Video of the day
On April 1, 1957 the British television programme Panorama broadcast a three-minute segment about a bumper spaghetti harvest in southern Switzerland. The success of the crop was attributed both to...
Read moreLower chamber membership fees
NAK introduces new discounts in membership fees. This year the basis for calculating members’ fees had to be reported by the end of June and fees have to be paid...
Read moreJoining forces to support the exporting of Hungarian agri-food products
The Hungarian National Trading House Zrt. (MNKH) signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Hungarian Chamber of Agriculture (NAK) and the Agricultural Informatics Cluster: the goal is to increase to...
Read moreSárospatak hosted discussions on the EU’s wine sector reform
The meeting was held to discuss the new vine planting rules that enter into force in January 2016. Results of the wine sector reform achieved so far were also evaluated....
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Half of agri-businesses are liquidated
There are three times more companies in Hungary than in neighbouring countries, but they exist for a shorter period of time and they go out of business in a couple...
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Magazine: Recipes from the computer
Thanks to the IBM’s super-computer Watson and the Institute of Culinary Education, the first cookbook with recipes from a machine has been published, titled Cognitive Cooking with Chef Watson. Experts...
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