Atlatszo.hu and Context.ro reporters gathered documents, conducted interviews, and visited more than 10 areas where industrial pig farming is practiced in Hungary and Romania.
Despite the fact that 2024 was an extremely dry year, farmers in the Eastern Hungary Water Management Directorate requested less irrigation water than in the previous year.
One in five Hungarian municipalities has tap water contaminated with herbicides, insecticides, and other agricultural chemicals.
We have obtained the results of a previously unpublished survey.
Last autumn the government also banned imports of Ukrainian honey, but now it allows it again. Hungarian beekeepers feel the decision is a slap in the face.
The city sells the land to BYD for €24.1, while farmers are paid only €1.4/m2 during expropriation.
It's not just the Mészáros family who farm here: we show the farm buildings constructed on agricultural land in the countryside.
