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GULYÁS: HUNGARY’S WHEAT SUPPLY ENOUGH FOR 20M PEOPLE

Hungary’s agriculture has capacity to supply wheat of milling quality to twenty million people, twice the population of the country, the minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said. Hungary produced 4.8 million tonnes of wheat this year, half of which is of milling quality and the rest is for feed, Gergely Gulyás told a weekly press briefing. Around 1.2 million tonnes is enough to supply a population of 10 million people, which clearly demonstrates the strength of Hungarian agriculture. With many regions of the world threatened by famine, it is extremely useful for Hungary to produce large amounts of grain for export, he said.