Hungarian government supporting irrigation systems
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The government is committed to strengthening the agricultural sector’s resistance against droughts, the minister of agriculture said in a video published on Facebook on Thursday.
István Nagy said “irrigiation is in the public interest, as the basis for secure food supplies”.
The government’s efforts in recent years have included setting up local irrigiation communities, and distributing a total 45 billion forints (EUR 113.5m) among farmers to develop their own systems, the minister said, adding that a further 70 billion forints would be available for the same purpose between 2023 and 2027.
Since 2020, when parliament passed a law on irrigation systems, which paved the way for irrigation communities, 118 such groups have been formed irrigating over 56,000 hectares of land, Nagy said, adding that a further 68 communities had appealed for registration.
Fun fact – the Brussels Bureaucrats EU have been dealing with this for a while and came up with assessments, recommendations, blueprints and funding mechanisms, including https://climate-adapt.eea.europa.eu/countries-regions/transnational-regions/central-europe and, as background, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2019/644216/EPRS_BRI(2019)644216_EN.pdf
Quite a robust framework, right?