The program draft of the left coalition reflects the rural development and land policy of Ferenc Gyurcsány and Klára Dobrev, while it does not contain even a trace of Jobbik's previous national approach, that is, that Hungarian land must be kept in Hungarian hands, reads the Magyar Nemzet article.
Instead, the opposition sees the land as belonging to whoever cultivates it. This principle clearly belongs to the Democratic Coalition. The party's goal is to eliminate the ban on land purchases by foreigners and legal entities, so that international agricultural enterprises dominate the Hungarian market. According to the draft of the joint program of the Democratic Coalition, Jobbik, MSZP, Momentum, LMP and Párbeszéd, if the left could form a government next spring, instead of increasing the competitiveness of Hungarian farmers, agricultural policy would clearly be dictated by Western European expectations.
The left-wing program plan Frans Timmermans , the vice-president of the European Commission, even though all the member states are protesting against them in the current EU negotiations. At the same time, there is no mention in the program that small producers and family farms should receive special support.
All this suggests that if the opposition wins the elections next spring, the left would once again subordinate Hungarian farmers and domestic agriculture to Western European political and economic interests , thus endangering the country's self-sufficiency.
The left wing led by Ferenc Gyurcsány seems to be still interested in consolidating the unfavorable production structure for Hungary as a result of privatization following the regime change and joining the EU. The purpose of this is to force the farmers of Eastern European countries to produce low-profit raw materials that create few jobs. And most of the raw materials produced here - such as grain - would be processed by foreign-owned food industry enterprises, curbing the development of domestic agricultural production with higher added value, reducing the country's self-sustainability...
...DK, which also controls the opposition's agricultural policy, openly supports and mentions genetically modified cultivation as part of the technological development of agriculture, similar to Momentum. Although our country's conditions do not justify the rise of GMOs, according to the Gyurcsány family's point of view, their cultivation is inevitable. The abandonment of GMO-free agriculture also reflects the interests of multinational agricultural companies.
The full article can be read here.
(Cover image source: Híradó.hu)
