Budapest, 20 October 2016 - Two million hectares of forested area of Hungary.
It is important to have more forest in the next fifty years must be installed on 600 000 hectares of new forest - said Sándor Fazekas, Minister of Agriculture of the M1 TV channel as to whether the government adopted a national forest strategy.
The Minister stressed that in the case of national treasures considered forests decades to think about the strategy planned for 15 years. The forest plantation HUF 50 billion available in the next 4-5 years, including afforestation of 20-25 thousand hectares have realized - he said. The increase was already significant in the last 8-10 years, about 50 thousand hectares of forest area has grown Hungary.
The forestry strategy as one million hectares of state forest and non-marketable, protected by laws, not alienable public property, the goal is to increase the force area.
It also mentioned that in the autumn of next year will once again be the National Agricultural and Food Industrial Exhibition and Trade Fair (OMÉK). More than a thousand exhibitors and hundreds of thousands of visitors expected results of a number of Hungarian agriculture featuring muster. The guest of honor OMÉK will be Japan.