The Hungarian presidency’s slogan is that a strong Europe needs a strong agriculture capable of providing for the whole continent and preserving its export markets while producing high quality, healthy products – said Sándor Fazekas, Minister of Rural Development at the Paris International Agriculture Show, an exhibition of food and agriculture products.
The issue of improper dealing has been raised in one case in Heves county when state owned land was rented by a foreign company.
Mr. József Ángyán is at the world’s largest Bio Agricultural Fair held in Nürnberg. The most important value of ecological farming is to produce healthy and safe food products, free of additives.
The Hungarian-Romanian environmental protection committee was convened for the eighth time. The meeting took place in Nagyvárad where Sándor Fazekas from the Ministry of Rural Development and László Borbély Minster of Environmental Protection and Forestry signed a decree regarding to the committee's activities during the previous year and for next year.
On 1 February 2011, the Hungarian Presidency of the Council launched the final, conciliation phase of the novel food regulation procedure, a simplified and centralised authorisation system for innovative food products.
Following daily consultations with the European Commission and Germany it has become evident that enhanced controls on affected feed manufacturers and farms are performed effectively, and the identification and withholding of products potentially contaminated by dioxin is ensured.
One of the most important goals of the National Collaboration Government established in May 2010 is the development of Hungarian rural areas, and, at the same time, the regaining of respect for rural life. The affairs of Hungarian rural regions and agriculture are not only the problems of those living in villages and involved with agricultural production, but the whole of society shares in the successes and failures of rural areas. Deviating from previous years the present government is setting a fundamentally new direction for the development of agriculture, it is primarily promoting the development of small and medium sized family enterprises.
The biggest ecological catastrophe to date in Hungary took place on October 4, when about 1 million cubic metres of red sludge flooded three settlements (Devecser, Kolontár and Somlóvásárhely) in Veszprém county. The sludge reservoir that caused the disaster is owned and operated by a private company.
Czerván, State-secretary for Agricultural Economy, believes that there are real opportunities of improving the agricultural trade between Hungary and Laos and also Hungary and Vietnam.