No future for the Hungarian agrarian system?
No future for the Hungarian agrarian system?

Summary/Abstract: Besides Hungary having more and more urgent tasks in connection with EU accession, raising the question of adaptation is nevertheless, first of all, justified by the miserable status of agriculture and the uncertainty of how this situation can be improved. Therefore, we have a double task: on the one hand, strategic decisions are needed, that is, the setting of fundamental aims for agriculture, growth, production and farm structure. On the other, the great losers of the past decade, i.e. agricultural producers, who make up a considerable part of the rural population, must be given a helping hand. It has become obvious by now that, since the mid eighties, this double task has been beyond the power of each and every government. Special attention needs to be paid to the generally belated reform measures of the former system in the mid eighties and to the unseized opportunities in the early 1990s. In particular, compensation, which had rather political than economic incentives, has had many negative effects because of its intricacies; in addition, neither has the hostility towards large-scale farms been eased. Today, it is also hushed up that the responsibility for today’s crisis lies partly on the laws made between 1990 and 1992.

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