Fiwi-Hűt Ltd has opened a one-billion-forint (3 million Euro) wild game meat processing plant and cold storage unit in Tata's Industrial Park. In his opening speech, Deputy State Secretary for Food Chain Supervision and Agricultural Economy Lajos Bognár emphasised the importance of game meat exports, adding that some 300 thousand large game and 700 thousand small game are dropped each year in Hungary, with 11 thousand tons of game meat reaching the market during the last game management year.

Managing Director of the German-owned company Sándor Gyenes provided information on the development project: the company buys up and fully processes red deer, fallow deer, wild boar, roe deer and mouflon. The enterprise has developed a national game collection network and runs 150 cold storage stations around the country, from which game meat is shipped to Tata for processing. This year, the company has processed 140 thousand large game, some 2100 tons, 170 of which arrived from Croatia and Slovakia.

The newly opened 1600 square metre processing plant was built as a greenfield development project. 96 percent of the company's products are exported to the parent company in Germany and to the majority of the countries in Europe.

(MTI, Press Office of the Ministry of Rural Development)