ISHS Acta Horticulturae 429: XIII International Symposium on Horticultural Economics
HORTICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT IN THE HUNGARIAN PLAIN |
| Author: | A. Burger |
| Keywords: | Afforestation, Desertification, Fruit planting, Land redistribution, Private farming, Production cooperatives, Vine planting |
| Abstract:
The redistribution of the agricultural land in Hungary affected both the structure and level of production. While the land ownership became private, land is used not quite so privately. In county Csongrád, being in the South part of the Hungarian Plain, 50 per cent of the agricultural land area is individually cultivated. The other 50 per cent is farmed by reorganized cooperatives and companies. A great part of the individual full-time farmers farm on the sandy part of the county. They generally have individual farming traditions of intensive horticultural production and livestock breeding. They have farmed earlier in the frame of integrated production of producer cooperatives with the help of the cooperatives. While they are farming now on bigger plots and are quite self-supporting, they farm more extensively and hardly survive. The level of horticultural production has declined in the county. The bankruptcy of the processing industry of the region contributed to that. The neglecting of the fruit and vine plantations and the cutting down of the privatized forests further the desertification of the sandy land. The planting of fruit and vine and forests should be supported by the government for preventing the desertification. At the same time the development of bigger viable commercial farms should be promoted. | |
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