Rural Development office: 150 billion HUF agricultural support has been paid out to farmers already

About 36 thousand Hungarian farmers have received 150 billion HUF agricultural support this year until early December, and a nearly 200 billion HUF advance payments are expected by the end of the year – the president of the Agricultural and Rural Development Agency (MVH) told M1 news channel on Wednesday.

Gyuricza Csaba added that Hungary pays out 70 percent of the subsidies in advance, compared to the earlier 50 percent. The paying out of the sdvances started in mid-October and it is scheduled to last until June 2016.

As he described, the farmers can apply for support undera record number of 35 different titles – including animal husbandry, crop production – or area-based subsidies. (MTI)