Today, agriculture must respond to several challenges, including the consequences of global climate change, the creation of conditions for efficient food production, and the sustainable use of natural resources and limited cropland, said the Minister of Agriculture in Gödöllő, today the Hungarian University of Agricultural and Life Sciences (MATE). at the opening ceremony.
István Nagy , who is also a member of the MATE foundation's board of trustees, said that the task of the new generation will be to promote sustainable landscape management and to ensure the workforce at all levels of the sector.
He added that in addition to the challenges , social expectations such as animal welfare, animal protection or changes in consumer needs must also be met. The Minister of Agriculture called the joining of long-standing research institutes to the MATE system the opening of a new era, which, according to him, created the largest agricultural research and higher education institution in Central Europe.
In his celebratory speech, rector Csaba Gyuricza spoke about the fact that after the establishment of MATE, 24 percent more students will be able to start their higher education this year; last year, 2,616, while this year, 3,244 students started in agricultural higher education.
Sándor Csányi, President and CEO of OTP Bank Rt. and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for the Hungarian Agricultural and Life Sciences University, emphasized that the food of the future must be produced by countries with similar characteristics to Hungary's: where there is adequate land, there is sufficient water. He added that the current epidemic has shown that when there is a very big problem, every state has in mind the provision of its own population.
Source: MTI
