Entrance to the tunnel, and critical issue of Hungarian agricultural strategy

Papp, Gergely

Keywords: strategy, agricultural and food economy, producers, decision-makers

It was found that the views of the participants attending the discussion were similar about fundamental issues, although there are still differences, especially with respect to the proposed solutions. Considering the last two decades, this can be seen as progress. Serious problems and troubles stimulate cooperation within the communities. Everyone feels that if we stay on the current track, Hungarian food economy, with its long traditions in agriculture, can be reduced to a mere producer of raw materials, losing even the vestiges of its competitive edge. It would become extremely vulnerable and the revenues of the sector would only be sufficient for survival, at best. We cannot yet see the light at the end of the tunnel, but the entrance of said tunnel is becoming visible. The debate and the recently published analyses outlined the entrance of the tunnel. The strategy to be arranged by the Agricultural Sciences Department of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences should show how we could cross this tunnel in the fastest manner, with the least loss and greatest gain, so that the decisions made now lead to the emergence of an agriculture and food economy which was dreamt after the change of the political system in Hungary.

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