Hungary: We eat fish every Friday!

Published 2020년 10월 16일

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Hungary is launching the HalF Friday campaign to promote the consumption of fish, which is currently below the EU average. The campaign is backed by the Hungarian Interprofessional Organization for Aquaculture and Fisheries, the Ministry of Agriculture, and the Agrarian Marketing Center. The government has also reduced VAT on ready-to-eat fish and is controlling the market for safe and high-quality fish products. The HalPénti initiative will publish recipes and maintain a map of fish purchase locations.
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In Hungary, there are fishponds on 24-26 thousand hectares, where the fish that come to our table are mostly grown by consuming natural food. These are safe and quality products, and the HalF Friday campaign will be launched in October to further encourage their consumption. We still eat very few fish, and per capita consumption is less than a third of the EU average, although it has increased by more than 1.5 kilograms since 2013. The HalF Friday campaign is launched by the Hungarian Interprofessional Organization for Aquaculture and Fisheries (MA-HAL) with the help of the Ministry of Agriculture (MoD) and the Agrarian Marketing Center (AMC). , the managing director of AMC, Ferenc Lévai, the spokesperson of MA-HAL, and István Németh, the president of the interprofessional organization. Friday and Wednesday was once a day dedicated to eating fish, it would be worth returning to the good habit of eating fish once a week, said Péter Zambó. Fish is a source of healthy, easily ...

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