Students will receive more than 45 million fruits in the School Fruit Scheme

The School Fruit Schemecontinues in t 2014/15 school year. In the scope of the school year, more than 45 million doses of fruits of domestic producers will be distributed to primary school students between 1-6 grade – Bittsánszky Márton Deputy Head of Depaartment of the Ministry of Agriculture Department told at a conference in Budapest on Wednesday.

The European Community launched the School Fruit Scheme in 2009. A total of 25 European Unioin Member States have joined to the program (including Hungary five years ago), so the program affects 8.6 million students of 61,000 schools.

In Hungary, more than 538,000 students of2,032 schools receive at least two kinds of fruit at least two times a week, at. Thus, more than 45 million fruits (75%) and fruit juice (25%) are distributed among school students between 1-6. grade. (MTI)