Nagy told a press conference before the opening of a farmers’ expo in Hajdúböszörmény in northeast Hungary that the government had asked Brussels to increase a crisis fund from the current 400 million euros which would not be enough to compensate for the losses.

He asked Hungarian consumers to give preference to local goods.

Head of the farmers’ association Magosz and deputy speaker of parliament István Jakab also called for Hungarians joining forces and said that “those buying Hungarian produce are helping the survival of Hungarian farmers.”

Source www.hungarymatters.hu

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