Hungarian-Kazakh agricultural cooperation is successful

By: STA Date: 2023. 01. 27. 10:30

A priority goal for our country is the opening to the East, including the establishment of a partnership with Kazakhstan, for which the close political, cultural and strengthening economic relations of the two countries provide a solid foundation – stated the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Agriculture at the 8th meeting of the Hungarian-Kazakh Economic Cooperation Intergovernmental Committee in Budapest.

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Sándor Farkas explained: For Hungary, the agricultural and food industry is a strategic sector, the engine of the national economy, which, in addition to supplying the country, also represents a serious opportunity for the export of Hungarian products, services and knowledge. The deputy minister called the Intergovernmental Committee the defining forum of our economic relations. As he said, this year there are opportunities for cooperation in key areas for Hungarian agriculture, such as crop cultivation and animal husbandry, and it is particularly gratifying that relations in the field of professional organizations and education are strengthening. In connection with the latter, he emphasized that in addition to the Stipendium Hungarikum scholarship, the FAO scholarship is also available, with which a student from Kazakhstan is currently graduating from the MATE Szent István University, master’s degree in crop production this year.

Hungarian and Kazakh companies have been cooperating successfully for a long time

The Ministry of Agriculture continues to consider it a priority task to support Hungarian companies in entering the Kazakh market and in exploiting common opportunities as widely as possible. According to the deputy minister’s conviction, thanks to the good practices developed in the past, Hungarian products, technologies and expertise can be present on the Kazakh market in the long term.