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00:00:00I would also like to talk about why change is needed
00:00:03right now.
00:00:05In the 2026 disaster relief year, by October
00:00:0826, 1.621 million
00:00:11According to the current regulations,
00:00:12farmers. The hectares of damage were reported, mainly due to drought. This data alone
00:00:16indicates how serious the situation is and that immediate action
00:00:19is needed, as farmers need help
00:00:22now. The estimated need for disaster relief
00:00:26funds exceeds HUF 100 billion,
00:00:29and... I am aware that with such numbers, one must be precise,
00:00:32so I will do so. Currently, approximately
00:00:36HUF 24 billion may be available for compensating the 2026
00:00:39damages. This can be supplemented by the crisis
00:00:42support available for 2026 and 2027,
00:00:46the combined amount of which for the two years is 99.6 million
00:00:50euros, or approximately
00:00:53We cannot accept that the HUF 36 billion. And I will not pretend that this covers the entire damage,
00:00:57but it is precisely this difference that shows that the system needs to be strengthened,
00:01:00and that we cannot postpone strengthening.
00:01:04In Hungary, an agricultural risk management system
00:01:07is in operation that provides a sufficient basis for mitigating
00:01:09damages. The disaster relief system,
00:01:12insurance premium support, and crisis insurance
00:01:16together serve the purpose of enabling farmers to maintain
00:01:20production and preserve their competitiveness
00:01:23despite natural disasters. Therefore, the foundations do not need
00:01:27to be dismantled. However, the current extraordinary year has clearly shown
00:01:31the limitations of the current regulations. The first
00:01:34limitation is timing. According to current regulations, disaster
00:01:37relief payments are paid in March of the year
00:01:40following the damage event. Just think about what
00:01:44this means for a farmer whose corn burned out in the summer.
00:01:47He now has to pay his loans,
00:01:50rents, feed, and the costs of autumn
00:01:53sowing. The help would only arrive
00:01:56half a year later. With such extensive damage, producers cannot wait
00:02:00half a year.
00:02:03Those who do not get funds in the autumn will either take
00:02:06out expensive loans, or postpone their investments, or sow
00:02:10less. These are all decisions that jeopardize
00:02:13the production of the next year.
00:02:16Thus, help arriving late cannot
00:02:19only not mitigate
00:02:22the damage, but also partly carries it over
00:02:25to the next year. The second limitation is that
00:02:30advances could only be received in a narrow range
00:02:33after spring frost and hail damage occurring until
00:02:37July 15, 2026. Drought victims, who make up
00:02:40the largest group of victims this year,
00:02:43have been excluded from this so far.
00:02:46The third limitation is that the system fundamentally
00:02:50compensates retrospectively. For prevention, that is,
00:02:53for farmers to be able to prepare
00:02:56for risks, there was no separate designated support
00:02:59title. The fourth limitation is the high
00:03:0330% income reduction threshold for crisis insurance,
00:03:07which made this tool not attractive enough for many
00:03:10farmers. Dear fellow Members, the proposal
00:03:14addresses all four limitations.
00:03:17The most important element of the proposal in the first round
00:03:21is the legal introduction of a general advance payment
00:03:24for all types of damage. The amendment makes it possible
00:03:28for all members of the risk community who submit a claim
00:03:31for disaster relief to automatically
00:03:34be eligible for the advance payment as well. No separate application
00:03:38needs to be submitted, and it does not matter whether the producer suffered drought,
00:03:41frost, hail, or other natural
00:03:45into the damage. This is also a question of fairness,
00:03:47Damage prevention support can as it would be difficult to explain to a farmer in the Great Plain whose
00:03:50harvest was destroyed by drought, why his neighbor who suffered hail damage
00:03:54received an advance payment and he did not. Nature does not
00:03:57differentiate between damages, therefore help should not
00:04:01differentiate either. With the general advance payment, we want to eliminate
00:04:05this injustice. According to our estimate, approximately 7000
00:04:09producers can benefit from the
00:04:11measure. With the introduction of the general advance payment, the
00:04:15responsiveness of the agricultural disaster relief system significantly
00:04:19improves, because fast and effective financial assistance becomes
00:04:23available to all members.
00:04:26Many people ask, and perhaps many of you also
00:04:30ask, if farmers will definitely receive it this
00:04:33year, and I would like to give an honest answer to this, because farmers
00:04:36do not expect promises, but predictability.
00:04:40Our goal is that yes, the advance payment will be
00:04:43made in December 2026. After the
00:04:46application deadline of November 30,
00:04:49three conditions must be met
00:04:52simultaneously for this. Domestic budgetary funds must be
00:04:56available. The National Assembly must adopt this
00:04:59law, an amendment, and the implementing decree must be
00:05:03published. At this point, therefore, it also
00:05:07depends on you, dear fellow
00:05:10payments. The essence Members, when farmers will receive their money. "In
00:05:12the regular procedure, payment would be made next March,
00:05:16the proposal makes it possible for the advance payment to arrive
00:05:19already in December. We believe that he who helps quickly helps
00:05:22twice. Therefore, I ask you to clearly
00:05:25distinguish these three questions in the debate. The first is the legal
00:05:29possibility, this is what the National Assembly will now decide. The second is the
00:05:33budgetary coverage, this must be provided by the government,
00:05:36and the third is the actual payment. This is done by the Treasury
00:05:40based on the implementing decree. If we confuse these three,
00:05:43then farmers will be disappointed. If, however,
00:05:46we treat them separately, then farmers will know exactly when and what
00:05:49to expect.
00:05:51The Hungarian State Treasury applies proportionate
00:05:54payments based on the preliminary data available.
00:05:58According to legal regulations, the advance payment must be provided
00:06:02to all eligible persons in the same percentage, meaning that no one
00:06:05can be in a more advantageous or disadvantageous position. One thing
00:06:09must also be clearly stated here. The December advance payment
00:06:13is not the same as the final disaster relief payment.
00:06:16The final amount will be determined in a later procedure, and the amount
00:06:19of this advance payment must be included in it. This advance
00:06:23payment is therefore not extra money, but an early
00:06:27payment of a part of the due assistance.
00:06:30It will help farmers in the tightest period, in the most
00:06:33difficult months. The question may rightly arise
00:06:37what happens if someone received more advance payment than
00:06:40they will eventually be entitled to.
00:06:43"The difference must naturally be settled. The proposal
00:06:46defines this as disaster relief contribution,
00:06:49and repayment is interest-free. Therefore, the farmer
00:06:52is not burdened with interest, penalties, or additional
00:06:55costs. This serves both accurate accounting and the protection
00:06:59of farmers. The question may also
00:07:01arise whether it constitutes double financing if several types of
00:07:05support are available simultaneously, and the answer
00:07:08to this is clearly no. The different tools serve
00:07:12different purposes. Disaster relief payments compensate for natural
00:07:15disasters, supplementary crisis support is available
00:07:19under a separate application title, and damage prevention
00:07:22support aims at preventing damages.
00:07:25The law prescribes separate accounting for certain
00:07:29sources. Advance payments must be taken into account when determining
00:07:32the final payment, precisely to avoid
00:07:36overcompensation. For the same reason, the proposal explicitly
00:07:39stipulates that the disaster relief payment for
00:07:432026 and 2027, supplementary crisis,
00:07:46payment supplementary crisis support is not part of the disaster relief
00:07:50payment. It can be requested independently or together
00:07:53with it, according to the call for applications, therefore
00:07:56the funds must be handled separately according
00:07:59to their legal title. I would like to inform farmers that the call for
00:08:02applications is already available on cap.gov.hu
00:08:06and the application for disaster relief payment also qualifies
00:08:10as an application for support according to the call, so
00:08:14one application, two helps, and less
00:08:16administration.
00:08:19Allow me to summarize this process from the farmer's
00:08:22perspective as well. The first step is for the producer to submit
00:08:26their application for disaster relief payment by November 30,
00:08:29thereby automatically becoming eligible for the advance
00:08:32payment, and their application also qualifies as an application
00:08:35for supplementary crisis support. The second step is that the
00:08:39Treasury, based on the preliminary data available,
00:08:43determines the same proportion for everyone, and if the conditions
00:08:46are met, pays out the advance payment in December.
00:08:50The third step is the later procedure, in which the final
00:08:53disaster relief payment is determined, and the advance
00:08:57payment already paid is deducted from it. And if someone accidentally
00:09:00receives less in the end than they received as an advance,
00:09:04then they must settle the difference interest-free.
00:09:07Farmers therefore do not have to learn new procedures,
00:09:10do not have to fill out new forms, but help can arrive months earlier
00:09:14in their accounts.
00:09:16Dear House, now I would like
00:09:20to talk about one of the most sensitive points of the proposal,
00:09:23the increase in producer contributions. I do not want
00:09:26to hide or sugarcoat this, because farmers can accurately calculate
00:09:30how much they will pay. The bill's paragraph
00:09:3410, some of its currently HUF 5,400
00:09:37items to HUF 10,800, and its HUF 1,800 items to
00:09:41HUF 3,600. That is, it
00:09:44doubles the affected amounts. The
00:09:47concrete farmer's burden depends
00:09:50on the affected cultivation branch and the classification
00:09:54according to the law.
00:09:57Here too, the question may arise why we are increasing
00:10:00farmers' payment obligations precisely when they are suffering
00:10:04damages. The answer to this, however, is that the disaster
00:10:08relief system is based on shared risk-taking,
00:10:11and stands on three pillars: producer payments, national
00:10:14supplements, and EU funds. National and
00:10:18EU funds are linked to producer
00:10:22of this system is that if producers pay
00:10:26more contributions, then more domestic funds, and
00:10:30perhaps more importantly, more EU funds can be drawn
00:10:33down and used to help
00:10:37goal is therefore not to simply increase payments, but
00:10:40to ensure that even in the event of major damages, there are sufficient
00:10:44funds for compensation. The solvency of the
00:10:46disaster relief fund can only improve this way. The numbers
00:10:50mentioned earlier show why this is necessary, if the
00:10:53damage claim exceeds HUF 100 billion,
00:10:56and the available resources are only a fraction
00:10:59of that, then the system clearly needs to be strengthened,
00:11:02otherwise, in the next drought year, we will be
00:11:06in the same situation. Let me remind you what risk community
00:11:09means: it means that farmers
00:11:13bear the risks of nature not individually, but collectively.
00:11:17Whoever was luckier this year and avoided hail or drought,
00:11:20may himself be a victim next year, and then he can count on the contributions
00:11:23of others. This is the essence of the solidarity
00:11:26system. However, with climate change, the
00:11:29risks have become much greater, so the jointly
00:11:33created reserve must also be larger. A fund
00:11:36that can only handle smaller damages will fail farmers
00:11:39precisely when they need it most.
00:11:42The question may also
00:11:44arise whether the state should not bear the additional costs
00:11:48instead of farmers. Here I would like to make it clear that the state
00:11:51is not withdrawing from burden-sharing, but is undertaking it with
00:11:55the same amount. The system is already jointly
00:11:59financed. In the event of a 100% increase in producer contributions,
00:12:03the state must provide the same amount of domestic budgetary funds,
00:12:06and at the same time, the strategic plan resource that can be
00:12:09drawn down also increases proportionally. Every
00:12:13forint that a farmer pays is accompanied by domestic and EU
00:12:16funds. So this is not shifting the burden, but
00:12:19sharing the burden, and a favorable construction
00:12:22for farmers. Dear fellow Members, disaster
00:12:26relief fundamentally serves the ex post compensation
00:12:30of already occurred damages.
00:12:33However, if we only intervene after the damages, then we will
00:12:37always be one step behind the weather. Therefore, in the
00:12:40future, we want to place much greater emphasis on damage prevention.
00:12:44The proposal creates a new support title for promoting
00:12:48the prevention of agricultural damage events.
00:12:52Its source is central budgetary and EU support,
00:12:55which must be recorded separately. The specific
00:12:58eligible activities, as well as the detailed conditions for application
00:13:02and payment, will be determined by ministerial decree.
00:13:05Separate accounting is not an administrative detail.
00:13:09This guarantees that the funds intended for prevention truly
00:13:12serve prevention, and do not merge into disaster relief, or other
00:13:16funds for other purposes.
00:13:19It will be transparent, verifiable, and accountable how we spend
00:13:23the money. The two tools are not
00:13:25competitors, but complements to each other. The goal is
00:13:29that farmers not only receive help after damage,
00:13:32but can also apply for support to mitigate risks.
00:13:36I think this is also the logic of a wise farmer. It is better
00:13:40to spend one forint on prevention today than ten on damage
00:13:42mitigation tomorrow.
00:13:44Damage prevention, however, cannot stand alone. One of the biggest
00:13:48challenges of the decade ahead will be adaptation to
00:13:52climate change. Hungary can only
00:13:55maintain the competitiveness of its agriculture, the
00:13:58security of its food production, and the strength
00:14:01of its rural communities if water management,
00:14:04drought management, and risk management measures
00:14:07work as a complex system, reinforcing each other.
00:14:12be an important building block of this system.
00:14:16One of the most important tasks of agricultural policy
00:14:19is to increase resilience and ensure the long-term
00:14:22profitability of agriculture. This
00:14:25is also served by the renewal of crisis insurance. The
00:14:29proposal reduces the eligibility threshold; instead of the current
00:14:32income reduction of at least 30%, an income reduction
00:14:35exceeding 20% can also form the basis
00:14:39for compensation. The system remains
00:14:41voluntary and operates with a three-year
00:14:45membership. The rate of compensation is 69.9% of the suffered
00:14:49income reduction. And what does this mean
00:14:52in practice? It means that a farmer whose
00:14:55income, for example, dropped by a quarter, could not receive a single forint of compensation
00:14:59from crisis insurance, because it did not reach the 30%
00:15:03threshold. In the future, he will also be eligible. This
00:15:06can be particularly important for those who are not
00:15:09affected by a single major catastrophe, but by several smaller,
00:15:12successive damages, and whose incomes are gradually, but
00:15:16noticeably decreasing. Based on the current membership of the
00:15:20system, approximately 200-250 farmers are directly affected.
00:15:24This number is still a modest number, but we want to change
00:15:28precisely that. Our goal is that even in the case
00:15:31of smaller income reductions, compensation should be
00:15:34available, and this should increase farmers' willingness
00:15:37to join. Producers need to know that
00:15:41in times of extraordinary damage events, they can
00:15:43count on tools that help their work, its
00:15:46continuation, and the survival of their farms. Dear
00:15:50National Assembly, I want to be honest with you. A law amendment
00:15:54alone cannot eliminate or prevent weather
00:15:57risks. Drought will not retreat
00:16:01before a paragraph. A good law, however, can decide
00:16:04whether farmers are left alone with the damage, or can count on
00:16:07the community. I also know that this proposal is not the last
00:16:11step. Adapting to climate change is a long
00:16:15process, in which water management and
00:16:17drought management also play a key role alongside
00:16:20risk management. However, the amendment submitted now
00:16:23can bring a noticeable change immediately
00:16:26in this disaster relief year. Therefore,
00:16:29I ask that we view this proposal not from a party
00:16:33political perspective, but from the farmers' interest. Drought does not ask anyone
00:16:36which party they voted for. The proposal strengthens several elements
00:16:40of the risk management system, provides faster financial
00:16:43assistance, because the advance payment can arrive already in December
00:16:46instead of the March payment, creates greater financing
00:16:50opportunities, because shared risk-taking mobilizes more
00:16:53domestic and EU resources, and provides resources for
00:16:56prevention, and offers broader crisis insurance protection
00:17:00with a lower entry threshold. Dear
00:17:02fellow Members, finally, let me repeat the sentence with which
00:17:06I began, because this is the essence of the proposal: we cannot prevent
00:17:09damages, but we cannot leave farmers waiting for help
00:17:12for months. In view of all this, I ask the esteemed
00:17:15National Assembly to support and adopt the bill,
00:17:18so that help can truly reach Hungarian farmers
00:17:22in time. Thank you for your kind
00:17:24attention.
00:17:28Thank you very much, Madam Secretary of State. Esteemed National Assembly, we will now proceed
00:17:32with keynote speeches, in 15-minute
00:17:35timeframes. I give the floor to Zsolt Ráki, the keynote speaker
00:17:39of the Tisza parliamentary group, in a 15-minute timeframe.
00:17:42Please. Esteemed Mr. Speaker, esteemed
00:17:45Madam Secretary of State, esteemed fellow Members.
00:17:49Representing the Tisza faction, as the keynote speaker on Agricultural
00:17:53matters, I will speak in
00:17:55the debate on Bill T934.
00:17:58But not only as a representative, but
00:18:02also as a practicing farmer, and together with my fellow
00:18:05farmers, as a repeated victim of drought
00:18:09damage, I also address you.
00:18:11For 31 years, I have been involved as an owner and manager
00:18:15in crop production, animal husbandry, and
00:18:19milk production in Gyula. Every
00:18:21single day, we produce a staple food
00:18:25for 5,000 people, of which
00:18:28we consume the most. Our
00:18:31narrower homeland, the Southern Great Plain, is one of
00:18:33the fastest warming regions not only in Hungary,
00:18:37but also in Europe, and even the world
00:18:40(+2.5 degrees Celsius) in 30
00:18:43years. Among other things, I also spoke about this
00:18:46at the last parliamentary assembly of the Council
00:18:49of Europe in Strasbourg, as Europe is also
00:18:53dealing with climate catastrophe. We feel the change
00:18:56on our skin. In the Gyula region, from January
00:19:00to the end of September this year, not even 200
00:19:03mm of precipitation fell. Five of the last six
00:19:07years were drought years. "This is no longer just a bad
00:19:10year, this is not normal, this is a sustained
00:19:14change to which the entire Hungarian agriculture must adapt.
00:19:18We have not had such a year, but it is expected that there will be even more difficult
00:19:21ones. Let's think about the daily
00:19:25drama of farmers. In Békés
00:19:27County, which was previously the granary of the country,
00:19:30and where a corn yield of 9 tons per hectare
00:19:34was not uncommon, this year it was on average 1,
00:19:40This is barely one-sixth of the previous production,
00:19:44and in many fields, not even that much was produced. Farmers
00:19:47were forced to disc the entire crop. From
00:19:50a once stable export product, we are now
00:19:54dependent on imports. Pastures burned out
00:19:57already in June, and the damage affected
00:20:00all plant cultures.
00:20:04Farmers have to make painful decisions every
00:20:08day: whether to slaughter part of their high-quality
00:20:11livestock so that they can feed the
00:20:14rest?
00:20:17And these are not just words, but numbers and fates
00:20:20as well. In Hungary, between March
00:20:24and September, in seven months,
00:20:2716 production-controlled dairy farms ceased
00:20:31their operations.
00:20:34I'll pause here for a moment. 16.
00:20:36This is 4.6% of the current 348
00:20:40farms in the last seven
00:20:43months.
00:20:46The question also arises, how will they finance their
00:20:50tillage and sowing?
00:20:53Noticeable savings are already visible in import prices, for example
00:20:56for seeds, we are not using the same seeds, but this will
00:20:59come back to haunt us in 2027, as we know,
00:21:03as you sow, so shall you reap.
00:21:07Yet, food supply, production, and trade
00:21:10are strategic and national security sovereignty issues
00:21:14as well. We cannot allow Hungary to become
00:21:17vulnerable to changes in other foreign
00:21:20markets, political
00:21:23games, such as trade wars, or
00:21:27possible border closures and restrictions. There
00:21:31were examples of this this year as well.
00:21:34We know that enormous burdens weigh on farmers'
00:21:37shoulders. The drastically aging workforce, the
00:21:40difficulties of generational change, the threatening
00:21:43consequences of the Mercosur agreement, the bureaucratic
00:21:47tightening, efficiency, economies of scale
00:21:51problems, import pressure due to the strong
00:21:54forint, and the price-sensitive consumer
00:21:57market. These challenges individually also pose
00:22:01serious problems, and together they threaten
00:22:04the survival of many farms.
00:22:07The Minister also often said that farmers
00:22:10must adapt. We agree with this.
00:22:14Charles Darwin also said this back in the day, that rapid
00:22:17adaptability to a constantly
00:22:20changing environment is the sole guarantee
00:22:23of survival. We must prioritize water-retaining,
00:22:27humus-building, regenerative cultivation, drought-tolerant
00:22:30and early-maturing varieties, cover crops,
00:22:33and we must utilize every irrigation
00:22:37opportunity. We also clearly
00:22:40formulated this in the Tisza program.
00:22:43Farmers must consciously prepare for continuously
00:22:47changing circumstances, for example,
00:22:50we need to develop and apply completely different
00:22:53water retention strategies, but adaptation also has its
00:22:57limits, and it cannot be solely the responsibility
00:23:00of farmers. The state must also create
00:23:04the conditions for this. One of
00:23:07the most important tools for this is the modernization
00:23:11of the risk management and disaster relief system.
00:23:14The current system has been in effect for more than a
00:23:17decade. We need to create a system
00:23:21that provides a real safety net for farmers, where
00:23:24through the cooperation of the state, the European Union, and the producer
00:23:28community, we do not leave farmers to fend for themselves
00:23:31in times of trouble, but together create the food sovereignty
00:23:34of the country and the security of next
00:23:38year's farming.
00:23:41The record-breaking damage reports of 2026,
00:23:44affecting over 1.6 million hectares, and
00:23:48a 800 billion. The planned
00:23:51losses in forints clearly show that the existing
00:23:54frameworks must be strengthened. This is served by the
00:23:58bill, whose real goal is to provide faster
00:24:02and more effective help to affected
00:24:05farmers, and to serve
00:24:08and make risk management more predictable.
00:24:12What are these? As the Secretary of State also said, there are four
00:24:16elements: one, an immediate liquidity rescue.
00:24:20So, the advances should already be paid this
00:24:23year. Two, involvement of EU crisis resources, the inclusion of
00:24:26almost 100 million euros from the CAP strategic plan's supplementary
00:24:29crisis support
00:24:32framework
00:24:35system, which will significantly increase domestic
00:24:38resources. Three, stronger
00:24:41income protection, lowering the
00:24:45threshold from 30% to 20%,
00:24:48thus making compensation available to more
00:24:51farmers. Four, a shift towards
00:24:54prevention, the introduction of new non-withdrawable damage prevention
00:24:58support, which mitigates future
00:25:01risks.
00:25:03We must also clearly state that strengthening
00:25:06the system entails increasing
00:25:09producer contributions. As a farmer,
00:25:13I know exactly that this is another burden in a period
00:25:16when many are already struggling with serious liquidity problems.
00:25:20That is why it is especially important that
00:25:23farmers receive truly faster,
00:25:27more predictable, and fairer damage
00:25:31relief in return for their payments.
00:25:34The reinforced system must prove itself
00:25:37in practice that it is worth
00:25:40participating in. The system works well if
00:25:44it is transparent, predictable, and the support really reaches
00:25:47those who have suffered the greatest damages.
00:25:50However, I must draw your
00:25:53attention to an essential correction. There is a
00:25:57problem that
00:25:59we must absolutely discuss in connection with the bill,
00:26:03because it is not enough to pay out damage relief faster
00:26:06if the extent of the damage is not necessarily
00:26:09calculated correctly in the first place.
00:26:14the reference yield is calculated from the yield data of
00:26:17the previous five years, the best and
00:26:20worst years are left out, and the average of
00:26:23the remaining three years is taken as the basis.
00:26:27However, where five of the last six years were
00:26:31drought years, this method no longer necessarily reflects
00:26:34the real production possibilities of the economy.
00:26:38Due to the continuously low yields, the value serving as the basis
00:26:41for the calculation is also decreasing. As a result,
00:26:45the damage appears smaller on paper, many farmers
00:26:49fall out of eligibility, or receive disproportionately
00:26:52little support.
00:26:55system considers the yield reduced due to continuous
00:26:58droughts as normal. In
00:27:02"drought-stricken regions, similar to the French
00:27:05model, we must examine the application
00:27:09of the eight-year reference
00:27:11period. If they accepted it,
00:27:15why wouldn't they accept it for us, as we have an even bigger problem
00:27:18than France.
00:27:20The correction of extremely dry years, and the introduction
00:27:24of regional or national reference yields.
00:27:28Supported by concrete numbers,
00:27:30in the Transdanubian counties with more favorable
00:27:34meteorological data, for example Zala, this year
00:27:37the average corn yield was 5.76 t/
00:27:40hectare, which is more than four times
00:27:44the average of 1.4 tons in Békés County. Thus,
00:27:48based on the currently valid compensation
00:27:51legislation, a farmer in an area producing three
00:27:54times more may be eligible
00:27:57for compensation, while some farmers in
00:28:00the Southern Great Plain are not eligible.
00:28:04"Due to the previously low reference yields,
00:28:08moreover, in the previous drought years, they did not have
00:28:11the opportunity to set aside for leaner times.
00:28:15It is no coincidence that Békés County ranks 19th
00:28:18among the 19 counties and Budapest in terms of
00:28:21GDP per capita, only preceding
00:28:25Nógrád-Medét. That is why
00:28:28I consider it important that the ministry, when
00:28:31developing the implementation
00:28:32rules, pays special attention
00:28:37to the situation of persistently drought-stricken
00:28:39regions. I know that getting this approved
00:28:43by the EU takes time, but if we don't
00:28:47start, it won't happen.
00:28:51The amendment of the law has other effects that,
00:28:55in my opinion, the honorable House must address.
00:28:58Firstly, it must be ensured that the additional state
00:29:02contribution associated with the producers' additional payments,
00:29:05which the Secretary of State also mentioned,
00:29:09receives adequate coverage in the 2027
00:29:12budget currently before the House.
00:29:14kapjon.
00:29:17Secondly, due to this year's extraordinary damages,
00:29:21I consider it justified to further strengthen
00:29:23the damage relief fund. We must examine whether the difference
00:29:27that the farming community may need, according to
00:29:29professional estimates, can be provided
00:29:32from the budget source available for handling
00:29:35extraordinary situations, the Havária
00:29:39Fund.
00:29:42Esteemed National Assembly. Hungarian agriculture, Hungarian
00:29:45farmers need quick help and predictable
00:29:48conditions. The current
00:29:51bill is an important step in this direction.
00:29:55Of course, it cannot be a cure-all. But we must not
00:29:58forget that in the Southern Great Plain, "drought is
00:30:02no longer an extraordinary event, but a recurring
00:30:06problem for years, and our damage relief system must
00:30:09adapt
00:30:10to this.
00:30:13Our goal is not only for farmers to survive the next
00:30:17drought year, but also for Hungarian agriculture to have a future
00:30:20in the long term. I ask
00:30:23my fellow representatives to support the adoption of the bill.
00:30:26Thank you for
00:30:27your attention.
00:34:55tell us? Now we all see names,
00:34:58we pay attention to individual destinies, but
00:35:02in reality, this is also about the functioning of power.
00:35:05Data is never the story, it is only a
00:35:09partial information, and from now on, it will be
00:35:12our task to investigate the full
00:35:15story. Agent files the price of silence
00:35:19part three today at 17:25
00:35:23on Duna.