Dear Participant

On behalf of the Organizing Committee and the Professional Congress Organizer we would like to thank you for attending the 33th UNITAB Congress in Budapest!

We hope you enjoyed both the professional and the social programs. This event was a very good opportunity to meet your old friends and establish new relationships.

We hope you had a good experience of the Hungarian hospitality and charm of Budapest will bring you back again in the near future.

Please visit our photo gallery where you can find the congress petition some pictures and official video of the 33th UNITAB Congress. You can also have a look at some of the presentations our valued speakers have published.

Thank you very much for your support to make this Congress a very successful one!

Illés BÉNYEI
President of UNITAB
President of Hungarian Tobacco Growers Association (MADOSZ)

József EISLER
Secretary of Hungarian Tobacco Growers Association (MADOSZ)
Chairman of European Association for Tobacco Research and Experimentation

François VEDEL
Secretary of UNITAB, director of the French Growers’ federation

Hungarian Ministry of Rural Development supported our congress

Since it was created in 1952, UNITAB, the European association of tobacco growers, has been gathering national or regional associations representing the whole European tobacco growing sector. The national associations gather on two major axles:

The stability and revenue generating ability of the Hungarian tobacco growing sector has suffered a significant decline at the end of the 1990s, its future seemed to be hopeless at a time therefore to represent their interest defence, the Hungarian tobacco growers have founded the National Association of the Hungarian Tobacco Growers (MADOSZ) on October 21, 1999 in Nyíregyháza.

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