At the ecumenical wheat consecration ceremony held on Saturday in Tiszacsomá in the Beregsász district, István Jakab, president of the Association of Hungarian Farmers' Unions and Farmers' Cooperatives (MAGOSZ), vice president of the Parliament, emphasized the motherland's responsibility for all Hungarians.
The program contributes to the care of tens of thousands of children every year, and they also help many Transcarpathian farmers with seed donations. Within the framework of the program, 10 tons of grain were collected in 2010, while 1,100 tons were collected last year, more than a hundred tons of which were collected by Transcarpathian farmers - reminded István Jakab.
Géza Gulácsy, the vice-president of the Subcarpathian Hungarian Cultural Association, underlined in his celebratory speech that the natural peoples living in ancient times treated all their activities related to the land, sowing and harvesting as sacred activities. "We are here to revive an element of this once-disappeared sacredness," he said.
László Hidi, the chairman of the organizer Pro Agricultura Carpathica Transcarpathia County Charitable Foundation, reminded that in Transcarpathia last year, despite the pandemic, 1013 farmers who joined the initiative collected 104 tons of crops as part of the Bread of Magyars program.
At the end of the ceremony, the representatives of the historical churches of Transcarpathia blessed and sanctified the wheat in a joint ecumenical ceremony.
Source and photo: MTI
