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Cutthroat competition on the Chinese smartphone market
Smartphone sales in China increased last year, while the ranking of the manufacturers has changed. Smartphone sales in the fourth quarter increased by 7.9 percent in China year on year...
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Prologis Announces Full Year 2015 Activity in Central & Eastern Europe
Prologis, Inc., the global leader in industrial real estate, today announced full-year 2015 activity in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Operating Performance The company leased 1.75 million square metres in...
Read moreNew rules for getting the small-scale farmer ID
The new government decree on small-scale farmer IDs entered into force on 1 January 2016. With the new system farmers’ administrative burden will reduce and a ‘whitening’ process is expected...
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Magazine: More room outside?
These days when going to a grocery store or ordering a burger in a fast food restaurant we very often experience the lack of quality labour force or simply the...
Read moreHungarian livestock in numbers
The cattle population’s growth that lasts since 2010 has continued. The number of pigs and sheep in the last six months remained virtually unchanged. According to the flash report of...
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Israel is expecting the Hungarian eggs and beef
Israel has shown interest towards the Hungarian egg and beef – was said at the working breakfast of Uri Yehuda Ariel Haconen, Israel's Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development and...
Read moreKPMG: more than 174 thousand farmers claimed greening support last year
In the first year of the introduction of the greening support more than 174 thousand Hungarian farmers claimed the support after about 5 million hectares in 2015 – the KPMG...
Read moreThe Universal Leaf Tobacco is taking less tobacco from the producers this year
The ULT (Universal Leaf Tobacco) Magyarország Zrt. will significantly reduce its tobacco-producing areas, as well as the yield bought from the farmers this year – the CEO of the Nyíregyháza-based...
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FM: modern crop protection is a key to human health
Modern crop protection is a key to human health, because food safety begins at the soils and healthy plants – the Minister of State of the Ministry of Agriculture (FM)...
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Foreign trade expanded in Europe
Last year, both the euro zone and the EU increased their exports and imports, and the trade surplus increased in both regions as well – the European Union's statistical office,...
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GfK: the sales of technical products increased by 8.7 percent in the fourth quarter
The sales of durable technical goods achieved an 8.7 percent growth in the fourth quarter of last year, compared to the same period of the previous year, The total turnover...
Read moreHungarian member in the European Commission’s new agricultural committee of experts
The European Commission formed a high-level committee of experts in order to help stabilise the situation in the agri-food market. On 12 January 2016 commissioner for agriculture Phil Hogan announced...
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Magazine: Optimistic start of the year in agriculture
The majority of farmers would be satisfied this year if agriculture’s output – at least in crop yield – would reach the same level as two years ago. So far...
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Financial administrative work takes up too much time
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Read moreKSH: agricultural producer prices rose by 5.2 percent in December
Agricultural producer prices were 5.2 percent higher last December, than a year before. In terms of the whole year 2015 agricultural producer prices rose by 0.4 percent. The price of...
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VAT on milk may be reduced
A five-point package of proposals is being created to support dairy farmers – Czerván György, Minister of State of the Ministry of Agriculture told Magyar Nemzet. The ministry will propose...
Read moreAnalysts: GDP growth beyond the expectations
The growth in gross domestic product (GDP) surpassed all analysts' expectations – according to macroeconomic analysts interviewed by MTI. In response to the Central Statistical Office’s (KSH) Friday published data,...
Read moreMeasures against honey forgers
The European Commission developed a control plan in order to eliminate industrially created import honey imported to the EU. In Hungary the fake honey have been basically eliminated. The NÉBIH-...
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We need to shift to innovation-driven economy
We need to shift to innovation-driven economy in the coming years. The industry should rely on knowledge, research and development, higher education and vocational education – the Minister of State...
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The stores that throw out food to be fined in France
France has become the first nation in the world that will ban supermarkets if wasting food – according to a new law this month. From now, the large grocery stores...
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The authorities will strictly monitor the unlawfully operating sales presentation companies
The authorities shall cooperate in the procedures relating to the sales presentations and strictly oppose against the offending companies. According to the joint statement of the Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH),...
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Hungary performs well in the EU export competition
According to the first approximation, the euro zone’s 19 Member States shipped 167.5 billion euros worth goods to the rest of the world in December 2015, which is a three...
Read moreRussia may be the world's largest grain exporter
Russia's government hopes that Russia can become the world's largest grain exporter in the next agricultural year, like the former Soviet Union – Magyar Nemzet Online wrote. Russian Agriculture Minister...
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Two passengers tried to smuggle cigarettes from Dubai to Hungary
About 7700 boxes of smuggled cigarettes were seized by finance guards at the Liszt Ferenc International Airport in Budapest – the National Tax and Customs Office (NAV) told MTI on...
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More than one and a half thousand years old roly-poly was found in Northwest China
In Northwest China's Xinjiang, roly-poly was consumed already 1700 years ago. The roly-poly is the inevitable traditional food of the Chinese Lunar New Year's dinner – archaeologists claim. The conclusion...
Read moreLower administrative burden in the oenology and viticulture sector
From 1 April 2016 winemakers can ask the relevant authorities to issue certificates of origin in an electronic format. Other changes in the regulation of the oenology and viticulture sector...
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Winter inspections: good results
Winter inspections in the food supply chain ended with positive results in most cases. In December 2015 precisely 4,997 checks were performed by experts, 8.4 tons of products were ordered...
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EU apple and pear may be allowed to enter the USA
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) published a draft regulation that gives a green light to apple and pear import from the European Union. This is great news for...
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Magazine: Almost 700 square metres of Hungarian exhibition space at Grüne Woche
Between 15 and 24 January 2016 Berlin was the place where the world’s agri-food producers gathered: there were almost 1,700 exhibitors from 65 countries on 120,000m² at Grüne Woche, which...
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Big Data changes the future of HR
Big Data analysis can help to optimise the recruitment process for HR managers, for whom certain personal characteristics and competences (soft skills) have become more important by now than previous...
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