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Ministry of Agriculture: grape growers deserve a fair purchase price
The government is actively helping to make this year’s harvest a success, yet some grape-buying wineries offer an unworthy and market-unreasonably low price for grapes. Unfair purchasing companies with grape...
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KSH: 82 percent of the agricultural area is arable
The size of the country’s agricultural land was 5 million 47,000 hectares on June 1. Of this, 82 percent was used as arable land and 15 percent as grassland, and...
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Decreased agricultural machinery, increased parts turnover in the first half
Individual farms and corporate enterprises purchased new agricultural machinery and equipment worth 92.4 billion HUF in the first half of the year, which was 1 percent less than a year...
Read moreThe purchase of this year’s tobacco crop has begun
The acquisition of this year’s tobacco crop has begun, and two domestic companies involved in the integration and acquisition of cultivation expect a yield of about 4,000 tons from their...
Read moreDelivery performance increased in the second quarter
In the second quarter of this year, the performance of both freight and passenger transport increased, compared to the low base of the previous year, but lagged behind the pre-pandemic...
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Counterfeit perfumes worth ninety million forints found by financiers in a truck
Employees of the National Tax and Customs Administration (NAV) found 2,400 bottles of counterfeit perfume worth 90 million HUF in the cargo hold of a truck on the Komárom section...
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Mars factory uses 100% renewable energy
Due to the increasing impacts of climate change, pandemic and social inequalities, Mars supports the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals through scientific measures. One of the world’s largest...
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Achieving responsible consumption has great support from Hungarian society
At a United Nations (UN) summit in 2015 member states drafted a global programme: the objective of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) is to lay the groundwork for a sustainable...
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In Békéscsaba, heroes competed in the 49th. National First Aid Competition
The Hungarian Youth Red Cross organized the grand final after a one-year hiatus, which was hosted by the Peaceful County Organization of the Hungarian Red Cross. On World First Aid...
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Generali recognised by Institutional Investor
Generali has been recognised among the “Most Honoured Companies” in the insurance sector in the All-Europe Executive Team annual ranking by Institutional Investor, the specialist magazine and independent research company...
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Magazine: Modern conservatives
Shoppers didn’t buy more salami or sausage last year, but they left more money in shops. According to Zoltán Nagygyörgy, product manager of Pick Szeged Zrt., people consumed more food...
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(HU) AM: Sikeresen zajlott a nyári szezonális ellenőrzés
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The summer seasonal inspection was successful
This year’s summer seasonal food chain inspection, ordered by Norbert Erdős, Secretary of State for Food Chain Supervision of the Ministry of Agriculture (AM), has been completed – said the...
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Farkas Sándor: poultry farming is one of the most competitive sectors of Hungarian agriculture
Poultry farming is one of the most competitive and most concentrated sectors of Hungarian agriculture, the parliamentary secretary of state of the Ministry of Agriculture said in Kiskunfélegyháza on Friday....
Read moreSevere food shortages are plaguing Britain
According to the head of the largest British food industry professional organization, the labor shortage in the sector is now so large that the increasingly perceptible deficits in the British...
Read moreConsumer prices rose sharply in Germany in August
Consumer prices continued to rise sharply in Germany in August, according to a final series of data released by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) on Friday. During the review, no...
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What packaging to use the day after tomorrow?
From July thousands of single-use plastic items are banned in Hungary too, in accordance with the European Union’s directive. The directive also says that 70 percent of the used packaging...
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Magazin: AI is the future
Fulbright research scholar Dr Katalin Fehér, an expert of artificial intelligence (AI) based society and culture was the guest of Chain Bridge Club. Dr Katalin Fehér explained that machine learning...
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MNB: the price of fuels, manufactured goods and unprocessed foods raised inflation
Compared with the previous month, inflation rose by 0.3 percentage points to 4.9 percent in August, while core inflation and core inflation adjusted for indirect taxes rose by 0.1 percentage...
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Distillation support is available again
The Ministry of Agriculture (AM) provides distillation support to wineries with a budget of 1.5 billion HUF as part of the harvest preparation, Minister of Agriculture Nagy István said. According...
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Nagy István: we facilitate generational change in agriculture
During the autumn legislative period, the Ministry of Agriculture is preparing a legal regulation that will facilitate the issue of succession, generational change and the transfer of the economy in...
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Ministry of Agriculture must pay the compensation contribution by 15 September
Members of the agricultural damage compensation scheme must pay the compensation contribution by 15 September 2021. The deadline is the deadline for the receipt of the consent to the account...
Read moreThe unemployment rate in the OECD fell in July
The unemployment rate in the 37 member states of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) fell to 6.2 percent in July, compared with an average of 6.4 percent...
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Delayed, but this year’s storm season has made up for it – the damage reported to Allianz exceeded HUF 2 billion
Between May 1 and August 31, customers of Allianz Hungária reported damage related to storms in excess of 20,000. Using the experience and technological developments of recent years, the insurer...
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Hungarian seed sector faces new challenges
Increasing competition in the international seed market is expected in the coming decades. The export-oriented domestic sector must also take into account the effects of climate change, he said at...
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41 entries from 38 applicants earned the Value and Quality Grand Prix award in 2021
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KSH: consumer prices rose by 4.9 percent in August
In August, consumer prices were on average 4.9 percent higher than a year before, and on average, they grew by 0.2 percent on a monthly basis, the Central Statistical Office...
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The foreign trade balance turned into a deficit
In July, the value of exports in euros was 10.0, while imports were 14.7 percent higher than a year before. The foreign trade balance deteriorated by 379 million euros, compared...
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AM: the “Szegedi tükörponty” also received EU protection
With the decree published by the European Commission on Wednesday, the “Szegedi tükörponty” became a protected name in the EU. This is the fourth Hungarian freshwater fish name after the...
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NAV dropped a cigarette smuggled with drones
This year, NAV seized more than ten million forints worth of cigarettes smuggled with drones and drones at the Ukrainian-Hungarian green border. The National Tax and Customs Administration (NAV) told...
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