Starting today, you can apply for the complex development of food industry plants - announced István Nagy in Debrecen, at the opening of the 30th anniversary Farmerexpó international agricultural food industry exhibition and the 16th Hortico fruit and vegetable horticulture exhibition. The Minister of Agriculture emphasized that developments related to the food industry and winemaking activities can be supported from the sources of the two hundred billion HUF tender budget.

The minimum amount of non-refundable support that can be applied for is one hundred million forints, the maximum amount is five billion forints, the intensity of the support is, as a general rule, fifty percent, but this may differ depending on certain activities, regions and the size of the enterprise.

The smallest enterprises producing handicraft products can count on a non-refundable grant of 15,000 euros, or HUF 5.3 million, and local governments can apply for HUF 100 million for the development of local markets.

According to the report of the telegraph office, István Nagy reminded that during the Covid-19 epidemic, the actors of the agrarian farm did not go to the home office, sowed and harvested, took care of the animals, thereby guaranteeing the population's food.

Agriculture is a strategic sector and plays a decisive role in the rapid development of the countryside, which is why more resources are provided for domestic agriculture than ever before. The government made a historic decision when it increased the domestic co-financing of the Rural Development Program from the previous 17.5 to 80 percent. 4,265 billion forints will be allocated to rural development in the next cycle, as much money will be spent on rural development in one year as in the previous seven years in total.

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