The government has also allocated HUF 4.7bn for repairing eaves, sluices and pumps, the minister added.
Nagy said the whole of Europe is struggling with drought conditions, around 60% less water enters the Tisza riverbed and 40% the Danube than usual and according to forecasts this will be Europe’s hottest summer.
Although this year’s prospects are difficult to estimate, spring cereals have developed well, their average yields are good, sunflowers are also holding up, but the maize crop is already damaged. Rain is badly needed, he said.
The minister said in the past three years the area of irrigated lands has doubled to 150,000 hectares. Farmers received HUF 176 bln for infrastructure upgrades, and a tender worth HUF 65 bln is still open to them.
Hungary can currently store 3 bln cubic meters of water, or one and a half times the volume of water in Lake Balaton, he noted.
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