Agriculture is the basis of society, which the Major museum presents to young people in such a way as to make them fall in love with farming, said the Minister of Agriculture in Keszthely on Sunday, at the handover of the new public spaces of the Georgikon Major Historical Exhibition.
István Nagy put it this way: one of the greatest merits of the Keszthely museum is that it makes the rural way of life and agricultural work attractive to young people, "it educates them to love the land, wildlife, livestock, and the garden."
Agriculture is the basis of our entire society, in which work can now be carried out under the most modern conditions, the prestige of this must be raised and shown to society - he believed.
In connection with the inauguration of the newly created mill playground and community space in the museum, he recalled that the Hungarian Agricultural Museum and Library under the authority of the Ministry of Agriculture - of which the major museum in Keszthely is a part - was founded by the then Minister of Agriculture Ignác Darányi exactly 125 years ago on this day. Even today, the institution collects and preserves the memories of Hungary's thousand-year-old agricultural past in the Carpathian basin with great care. However, the purpose of a cultural history exhibition is not only to stop and turn back the wheel of time, it truly fulfills its mission if it is able to save and pass on the values of past centuries and millennia by exploring the past.
He explained: it is the privilege of few to live and work close to nature, to walk through forests and fields, to enjoy the panorama of vineyards every day. Agricultural work "still makes a man out of young farmers", all those who choose the agricultural career, but nowadays they no longer have to fight a hopeless struggle, a windmill battle with the elements for good crop results.
Plant cultivation, animal husbandry, and food production are now carried out using modern, digitized, high-tech machines and production lines in almost all sectors. Agricultural innovation, startup-type initiatives, and robotics are gaining more and more ground in agriculture, for example in the manual labor-intensive horticulture sector, so manual labor will be replaced by the high-tech machines of the future, said István Nagy.
At the same time, Hungarian agriculture, with its increasingly modern machinery and modern technologies used in the domestic food industry, can respond to any unexpected situation, it has set new records in the last ten years, it remained on its feet even during the coronavirus epidemic, and proved that it is shockproof.
At the handing over of the new developments, Jenő Manninger, the Fidesz member of parliament for the region, and Bálint Nagy, the mayor of the city (Fidesz-KDNP), emphasized that Keszthely has long preserved agricultural traditions with its university, and the museum's new programs focus on a healthy lifestyle and knowledge about nutrition, which is also important in today's world, is passed on.
Source: MTI
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