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Agricultural Chamber: Hungarian pork is safe
The Hungarian pork is safe, even after the appereance of the African swine fever, as the strict animal health and food safety rules exclude the infection, and the virus that...
Read moreNAK: employers can do a lot for the safety of agricultural workers
Typically, a quarter of the fatal workplace accidents occur in agriculture, most of which are collisions and hit and runs with tractors and other machines. In addition, there are many...
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The NAK’s position is also valid in the European Commission’s new directive proposal
The European Union has announced a new regulatory proposal aimed at improving the role and conditions of competition for farmers and small and medium-sized enterprises in the food supply chain....
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More than two hundred farmers’ markets are waiting for the customers across the country
Farmers’ markets are becoming more popular: Currently 260 of them are operating in the country. In the producer markets, everyone can sell only self-produced goods and more and more buyers...
Read moreAgricultural Chamber: autumn sowings are in good condition
Autumn sowings are in good condition due to this year’s mild winter, without snowfall. According to the survey of the National Chamber of Agriculture (NAK), 90 percent of the 1.6...
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Education of conscious consumers in Schools
The purpose of the National Chamber of Agriculture is to strengthen the trust in domestic products at quite a young age. Local producers and products were introduced in schools and...
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National hailstorm protection system operational from May
NAK organised a press conference in Dunaharaszti to introduce how the national hailstorm protection system works. The system will be operational from 1 May 2018. NAK president Balázs Győrffy told: in the...
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New services centres in the NAK network
On 4 April NAK opened its modernised Bács-Kiskun County directorate in Kecskemét. NAK has approximately 40,000 members in the county, who will be able to manage their affairs in an ideal...
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Educational campaign to promote fruit and vegetable consumption
French cross-sector trade organisation Interfel and the Hungarian Chamber of Agriculture (NAK) launched a joint campaign, to make fruit and vegetable consumption more attractive to children and families in a...
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The ice damage mitigation system can be operated in the entire Carpathian Basin
The national ice damage mitigation system will be launched on 1 May and will be able to operate throughout the Carpathian Basin. Győrffy Balázs, the president of the National Chamber...
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Magazine: Egg import helped
Data from the Agricultural Economics Research Institute (AKI) and KSH’s market price information system (PÁIR) revealed that in the European Union the price of egg at the place of packaging...
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The NAK opened its renewed Bács-Kiskun County Directorate on Wednesday in Kecskemét
The National Chamber of Agriculture has opened the renewed Bács-Kiskun County Directorate in Kecskemét on 4 April. The chamber has about 40,000 members in the county – the public body...
Read moreBureaucracy may be reduced in crop production
The National Arable Crop Production and Supply Industrial Board of the National Chamber of Agriculture (NAK) was established. Petőházi Tamás has become the chairman who is also the deputy chairman...
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NAK’s Food processing department wants further VAT cuts
József Losó is the head of NAK’s Food processing department, the most important goals of which are to analyse the Hungarian trademark situation and to continue reducing the VAT on...
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NAK launches campaign to promote beef consumption
Balázs Győrffy, president of the Hungarian Chamber of Agriculture (NAK) told at the campaign launch press conference: Hungarians eat 2-2.5kg of beef a year, which is only one third of...
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The output of Hungary’s horticulture sector can be doubled
Hungary’s horticulture sector produces in the value of HUF 400 billion a year. This sum can be doubled with modernisation, simplifying rules and strengthening marketing work – it was said at the first...
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Objective: to strengthen fair trade practices
NAK has established the Agriculture and food trade department, with Dr Attila Csorbai as the head and NAK vice president Tamás Éder supervising the work. At the department’s first meeting the...
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More controls bore fruit
Between 2010 and 2017 the level of investment grew by 34 percent in agriculture. In 2014 the VAT on live and half pig was reduced, and one year later beef and...
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The Agricultural Chamber launches a campaign to increase beef consumption
The National Chamber of Agriculture (NAK) is launching a campaign to bring the Hungarian beef consumption closer to the EU average – the chairman of the public body said at...
Read moreAgricultural Chamber: the production value of horticulture can be doubled
The production value of the Hungarian horticultural industry is about 400 billion HUF annually, which can be increased by up to 800 billion HUF through modernization, rationalization of regulation and...
Read moreThe NAK urges the continuation of VAT cuts
The Food Processing National Department of the National Chamber of Agriculture considers the continuation of the VAT reduction of foodstuffs as one of the most important objectives. The Food Processing...
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Successful end of the year, exciting start of the year at NAK
Balázs Győrffy, president of the Hungarian Chamber of Agriculture (NAK) analysed 2017 and spoke about the objectives for 2018 to our magazine. From a farmer’s perspective, one of the chamber’s most...
Read moreChamber of Agriculture: the farmers would expand the size of the irrigable area to fivefold
Instead of the current 80,000 hectares, the farmers would irrigate on 377,000 hectares in the future – according to the results of the irrigation water demand survey of the National...
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Foil producers to be compensated
At the initiative of the National Chamber of Agriculture (NAK), the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture (FM) will pay hundred million forints income compensation support to the growers who have suffered...
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Strategic cooperation between the Agricultural Chamber and MÉDOSZ
The National Chamber of Agriculture (NAK) concluded a strategic cooperation with the Agricultural, Forestry, Food and Water Workers’ Trade Union (MÉDOSZ) on Tuesday, in order to increase the retaining power...
Read moreA village economist office was opened in Mezőcsát
The Hungarian National Agricultural Chamber (NAK) has opened a village economist office in Mezőcsát, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county. At the event, Tállai András, Minister of State of the Ministry of National Economy,...
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The Service Center of the Agricultural Chamber was handed over in Karcag
The National Chamber of Agriculture (NAK) opened its sixth NAK Service Center in Karcag providing information and consulting services to farmers, businesses with the involvement of external professional partners. The...
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The NAK provides soil testing services to its members
The National Chamber of Agriculture (NAK) also offers laboratory soil testing to its the members with the participation of the University of Kaposvár (KE) – the chairman of the public...
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The Hangya wants a more favorable environment for agrarian associations
The Hangya Co-operatives Cooperation (Hangya) initiates the creation of a more favorable business environment for the agricultural cooperatives at the government. Last December, Patay Vilmos, the president of the organization,...
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