According to the chamber’s announcement, the food industry is the third largest manufacturing sector in the country, with 5,400 active food companies directly employing about 100,000 people, processing 65% of the raw materials produced by Hungarian agriculture into quality food.
The most important export products of Hungary are cereals, feed, meat and meat products. NAK emphasized that supplying the internal market is always the primary consideration in Hungary’s food production, and only afterwards is the surplus exported.
In the domestic retail trade, about three-quarters of the foodstuffs on the shelves of stores have been Hungarian goods for many years, novekedes.hu adds.
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