MBH Bank has introduced two new digital services on its AgrárPartner Platform aimed at reducing administrative burdens for agricultural producers and supporting their decision-making. According to the bank's announcement, the additions are an artificial intelligence (AI)-based document processing feature and a managerial decision-support dashboard.
Automatic extraction from Single Applications to speed up factoring requests
A key new capability automatically processes data from Single Applications (Egységes Kérelem). Farmers need only upload their Single Application to the MBH AgrárPartner Platform; the AI then identifies and extracts relevant data, verifies its correctness, and pre-fills the form required for a factoring request. The solution uses MBH eFin Technologies' generative AI technology, which coordinates multiple AI agents.
The bank expects the automation to reduce data-entry errors, decrease the need for supplementary documentation, and accelerate administrative procedures. That can be particularly important when producers must obtain financing quickly: agricultural subsidies often play a significant financing role for operations, while farmers frequently need to cover production costs from their own resources or external financing until subsidy payments are made. Factoring arrangements can assist with such pre-financing.
One interface for commodity prices, exchange rates and weather
The other major addition is a decision-support dashboard that aggregates the most important market and weather information affecting farm operations on a single interface. Logged-in users can view current weather for their location, notable weekly price movements, and prices for key agricultural commodities, animal products and currencies.
The platform enables monitoring of prices for, among others, milling wheat, feed wheat, barley, corn, sunflower and rapeseed. It displays not only current prices but also allows comparison of weekly, monthly, year-to-date and annual price changes, and provides historical price trends to help prepare marketing decisions.
Market prices are published based on MBH Bank's own procurement price surveys, while exchange rate data covering ten currencies come from official statistics of Magyar Nemzeti Bank. Monitoring exchange rates can be especially important for grain trading and for purchases of fertilizers, crop protection products and machinery, where international prices and changes in the forint's value affect costs.
Weather forecasts and agrometeorological maps
The platform also provides detailed weather forecasts, precipitation data and agrometeorological maps, with meteorological information supplied by HungaroMet. The announcement cites the 2026 drought as a reminder that meteorological information is increasingly important in agriculture: precipitation shortfalls, prolonged high temperatures and extreme weather events affect not only expected yields but also farm profitability and liquidity.
Detailed forecasts can support planning for sowing, crop protection and harvesting activities; combined with market data, they give farmers a more comprehensive picture of the economic environment in which they must make decisions.
Beyond banking: an information platform for everyday farm management
MBH Bank says its goal is for the AgrárPartner Platform to function not only as a tool for financial administration but also as an information surface that supports the everyday operations of agricultural enterprises. Szabó István, Customer Relations Director of MBH Bank's Agrarian and Food Industry Business Unit, stated that the developments focus on reducing administration and supporting farmers' decisions, and that further platform enhancements will be planned based on farmers' needs and practical experience.
