The crisis and the bad weather worsened the performance of agriculture last year

The agricultural performance declined in 2009 to its one-third – said Gőgös Zoltán, the Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, on the event of the Pest County Chamber of Agriculture.

Since the system change, the largest amount of support; 613 billion HUF was available to the farmers – said the Secretary. However, the bad economic and natural conditions, were not favorable to the industry. So the profitability of agriculture decreased to about 70 billion HUF. There is still demand for resources. In the past quarter, about 400 billion HUF request arrived from the farmers to the New Hungary Rural Development Program – reports szabadfold.hu.