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Land Fund Plans Legal Action In Kishantos Organic Farm Case
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Budapest, April 23 (MTI) – The National Land Management Fund (NFA) plans to take legal action in connection with the organic farm of Kishantos, in central Hungary, farm ministry state secretary Marton Bitay said on Wednesday.
Greenpeace Hungary held an event dubbed “Keep Kishantos alive” in front of the Farm Ministry building in Budapest earlier on Wednesday where organic seeds from Kishantos were distributed among participants.
Bitay told MTI that the Kishantos Rural Development Centre caused damages to the state for more than six months by using land that it had been leasing in the past but then lost the eligibility to use. Neither the centre, nor the new leaseholder was paying lease to the state during this period, he added. Additionally, the state had to pay for a security company to enable the new leaseholder to get access to the land they had won through a tender, Bitay said.
The centre was using the land in bad faith and prevented seven family farmers, a company and an educational institution from starting its activities by refusing to hand over the area it had been leasing, Bitay added. The centre was not among the winners of land lease tenders announced in Kishantos, he said.
Bitay also voiced surprise about Greenpeace Hungary getting involved in the case, adding that the government was successfully working together with the green organisation in many other areas.