There are many new opportunities in agriculture

(Photo: AM/Vermes Tibor)

Zsolt Feldman stated at a press conference in front of the Baranyai Organization for the National Chamber of Agriculture (NAK) that the government’s responsibility is to provide help and opportunities for Hungarian farmers, and this year a number of invitation to tender will be published. He said that it is possible to apply for larger, more complex irrigation development investments to ensure that farmers can meet the challenges of climate change, to make their production structure more diverse and to ensure their yields. He emphasized that tender opportunities will also appear in 2025 that help to alternately utilize areas, such as the establishment of grassland or forestry systems, and launch “fairly compensated programs for stimulating land use”. The new application, which will open on March 5, is used to strengthen small farms. He provided a grant of tens of millions of forints with an intensity of 85 percent under the smallest tender design, the smallest tender for food and crop production. Zsolt Feldman pointed out that since the 2022 drought, many Hungarian farmers have been consciously trying to adjust their management to the redeemed climate, and successfully strengthened the resistance of their economy. Only in the light of this, the government encourages farmers to try to pursue “sustainable farming practices that maintain soil moisture” and negotiate a diversity of production, as “this is the case with economically and climate.

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He believed that it is especially important for farmers to decide what to produce and under what circumstances. Zoltán Horváth, chief bishop of the Baranya County Government Office, said that the situation of European and Hungarian agriculture is complex, uncertain at the moment, because the details of the European support system after 2027 are not known, there are uncertainty about the emergence of grain produced in Ukraine and He added that, at the same time, calls for proposals promise a number of opportunities this year, and Baranya farmers are popular with tender opportunities, and they will start out in a great national comparison.

MTI