Hungary trying to ensure tobacco’s future

Hungary’s government is looking for ways to support the country’s tobacco growers while complying with European Union requirements, according to a story in the EcoNews quoting the farm ministry’s state secretary, Bela Glattfelder.

From next year, about €22.4 million in EU funding would no longer be available and, if that funding could not be replaced with national resources, tobacco growing could end in Hungary, Illes Benyei, the head of growers’ association MADOSZ, was quoted as saying.

Tobacco growers and processors signed an agreement in Ofeherto on Tuesday to work together to support the tobacco sector in Hungary.