Berlin’s Green Week has opened with Hungary as a guest of honour

Berlin, January 20 (MTI) – The world’s biggest farm and food expo, Berlin’s Internationale Gruene Woche (IGW), has opened with Hungary as guest of honour, and farm minister Sándor Fazekas was on hand on Friday to unveil the country’s 1,700 metre stand presenting 33 exhibitors of high-quality, GMO-free produce.

Fazekas was joined by his German counterpart Christian Schmidt and Berlin’s mayor Michael Muller.

Fazekas told an international press briefing that the Hungarian producers exhibiting at the event counted on new business opportunities. Germany, he noted, is Hungary’s biggest market for farm produce and food, and last year’s estimated exports totalled 1.3 billion euros, a 50 percent increase over five years.

The minister said that Hungary’s farm production accounts for 4.7 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) and it contributed 0.6 of a percentage point to overall economic growth of 2.1 percent in the first three quarters of last year, surpassing the contribution of machine production and the automotive industry.