Agriculture minister urges regional cooperation to maintain farmer competitiveness
Agriculture Minister Istvan Nagy urged his counterparts from the Visegrad Group, and from Bulgaria and Romania, to cooperate on pressing Brussels to keep farmers competitive and ensure food security for the region at a meeting in Bratislava on Thursday.
The meeting of the V4 — Hungary, Czechia, Poland and Slovakia — agriculture ministers, joined by their colleagues from Bulgaria and Romania, discussed flood management, the European Union’s common agricultural policy and the use of biomass for energy, as well as assessing two decades of EU membership, the ministry said.
Addressing the challenges of extreme weather, Nagy said best practices ought to be shared and pointed to the need for better water management, soil improvement and the establishment of an EU mechanism to support farmers in weather-related crises.
