There are several types of support available for farmers
2022. May 31.While inflation is also making life more difficult for farmers, they can get a range of subsidies to make growing crops and raising livestock even more profitable.
Huge increase in food prices
The government is telling us that inflation will be 8.9% this year.
Of course, this includes everything, ad absurdum, even some things may be going down in price.
But the average consumer perceives that prices are out of control, rising rapidly.
Although Gergely Gyulyás, the minister in charge of the Prime Minister’s Office, said at the government briefing that price freezes reduce inflation by 5 percent, their importance is growing as world prices rise.
According to a G7 survey, pasta has risen by 89 percent in a year – a year ago the average price of a kilo of spaghetti was 398 forints in the four biggest supermarket chains, but today it has risen to 753 forints – coffee has risen by 70 percent, eggs by 56 percent and tomatoes by 52 percent.
According to G7, these products have seen the highest price increases.
The price of bakery products and brown bread has also risen significantly, while cheese has gone up, and snake cucumbers are almost one and a half times more expensive than vegetables.
Of the 42 products surveyed, only four have fallen: white and carrots, onions and potatoes are cheaper than this time last year.
For some products, such as flour and cooking oil, prices have risen because the price freeze came in later.
For cooking oil, people have been so rushed that it is not available in shops.
And an interesting finding from the G7 is that they looked at the 2020 and 2021.
April to April in 2020 and found that prices fell by 2 per cent, while inflation from 2021 to 2022 was 21.9 per cent over the same period.
In the light of this, we can say that the average prices of the four supermarket chains suggest that the price freeze’s calming effect is not significant.
Large amounts of aid available
It is likely to concern many people that non-repayable agricultural aid may be claimed by sweet pepper producers who grow quality sweet peppers to partially offset the cost of purchased metal-blocked seeds.
This is provided for in Decree 37/2014.
(IV. 4.)
VM Decree No. 37.4.2013 on aid.
The Hungarian State Treasury has published information on this. 
The amount of the aid may be up to three quarters of the net price of the seed, but may not exceed HUF 100 000 per kilogram.
It is also important to know that this is limited to a maximum of EUR 100 per tonne during the aid period, i.e. from 2021 to 2021.
October 20 and 2022.
30 April 2022, and used on the own land.
The seller can be a producer or a producer group.
Applications can be made electronically by filling in the application form via the client portal.
Fish farms are also supported
According to a press release by the Ministry of Agriculture, 18 billion euros will be spent on the development of the fish sector under the Hungarian Fish Farming Operational Programme Plus, in order to further increase annual per capita fish consumption.
Norbert Erdős, State Secretary for Food Chain Supervision of the Ministry of Agriculture, said during a visit to a rural company that the quality and recognition of domestic fish and fish products will be highlighted.
He also said that calls for investment would not be published until next year, in 2023.
The programme is designed to make fish processing enterprises more modern and to further increase competitiveness.
There are also plans to set up more fish processing plants.
The Secretary of State also mentioned the fact that in 2018, in order to increase fish consumption, the government reduced the VAT on fish by 22% to 5%.
He added that Hungarian fish is very healthy and tasty, and that more and more fish products are available in more and more outlets.
Support for herb growing is also open for applications
It’s not only worth looking at peppers and fish, but also planting and growing herbs, as you can get up to €500 million in non-repayable grants.
Last year, the scheme was a success and now, in 2022, it is open again, with some modifications, but it has been reopened.
Generally speaking, the scheme is open for the planting of fruit plantations and the establishment of conventional or organic plantations, for activities related to existing fruit plantations that are less than ten years old from the date of planting, and for activities related to perennial herb, aromatic and aromatic herb plantations.