Greenpeace demands sales of state-owned land be halted
Budapest, November 23 (MTI) – The Hungarian government should halt the sales of state-owned plots now underway, an expert of Greenpeace Hungary told a press conference in front of the farm ministry on Monday.
Katalin Rodics said that the government-initiated programme would harm local farmers as well as the whole country and argued that those plots were not owned by the government but belonged to the whole nation.
Rodics insisted that the new owners winning the plots will use methods of mass production involving harmful chemicals and grow unhealthy products.
The expert demanded that the land auctions should be stopped and the government should provide assistance to small, family-run farms with ecological technologies. She said that farmers still have the skills to produce better and more food than through “industrialised chemical farming”.
Rodics spoke against a scenery of a coffin inscribed Rural Hungary.
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Source: Greenpeace demands sales of state-owned land be halted
Katalin Rodics is so right about this! Those plots don’t belong to the government, but to the nation. They have no right to sell them off. It’s criminal to say the least.
She is also right about that the government should provide assistance to small, family-run farms with ecological technologies. She said that farmers still have the skills to produce better and more food than through “industrialised chemical farming”.