Europe's Largest Organic Fertilizer Plant to Be Built in Hungary

The Master Good Group, owned and run by Hungary's oldest poultry farming dynasty, currently produces 35-40,000 tons of its poultry manure, called Bio-Fer, annually, but will triple its production capacity in the next three years. This will create the largest organic manure plant in Europe. The Group hopes to improve the soil quality of Hungarian land with their product.

The development of the Master Good group started ten years ago and by 2022 the brand Bio-Fer came to offer eight products, including four organic certified ones.

Last year, 30,000 tons of fertilizer were sold, of which 20,000 tons went to farmers in Hungary. Of the remaining 10,000 tons, 5,000 tons went to Slovakia, 2,500 tons to Romania and the remainder to the countries of the former Yugoslavia. They can already say that they are the biggest suppliers to the Hungarian market as the market demand has been around 25,000 tons, of which they have covered 20,000 tons, the turnover of foreign products has shrunk to a few thousand tons in recent years.

"The export interest is steadily unbroken and growing", Master Good Managing Director László Bárány emphasizes. "We would be happy if as much as possible of the quantity produced could be used to improve the quality of domestic land."

Master Good will start investing next year. The aim is to produce at least 100,000 tons of product. The development will include the expansion of the manure pre-treatment and production lines, with two granulation units coming on stream at the end of 2024. This will result in 50,000 tons of product by the end of 2024, 70,000 tons by the end of 2025 and the target of 100,000 tons in 2026.