Katalin Takacs-Gyorgy

• PhD, Professor
• Professor at Obuda University

Aim: This study aims to assess the critical importance of stakeholder awareness of food safety and security across the food value chain. A lack of awareness can hinder the development of sustainable agriculture; therefore, this research explores why awareness of food safety and security is essential for different stakeholders in the food value chai...

There is a growing gap between higher education systems and the needs and demands of the labor market. Many of today’s students will work at jobs that just have emerged or do not even exist yet. The “newcomers” will need both digital and social-emotional skills in the coming years. These new competencies will make the new generation of employees’ c...

According to international statistics, Hungary has a high ratio of black economy. On December 31th of 2017, the number of registered corporations reached 1.7 million, of which 395 910 were registered in Budapest [1]. There is a clear need for such measures and developments that are aimed to track corporations at the e-government level, and such inf...

The concept of Climate Smart Agriculture couples climate change and food security through the integration of adaptation and mitigation measures, mostly driven by smart-innovations. The paper is an attempt to present how climate smart agriculture concept could be driven by diffusion of the smart innovations in agriculture, and how these innovations...

Many technologies have appeared in agriculture to reduce the harmful effects of chemical use. One of these technologies is precision farming technology. Precision farming technology should not be considered as only the latest plant production technology or only a new agro-management tool. It is achieved only when the results of electronics and IT e...

Many technologies have appeared in agriculture to reduce the harmful effects of chemical use. One of these technologies is precision farming technology. Precision farming technology should not be considered as only the latest plant production technology or only a new agro-management tool. It is achieved only when the results of electronics and IT e...

The decrease in the area of arable land has further continued in the European Union (EU) since the Millennium. Sustainable development is partially based on the sustainable use of natural resources, which is based on the limitation of land use and on the introduction of different incentives. Previous direct subsidies resulted in increased productio...

The aim of this research is to investigate plant production sustainability, the economical requirements, risks, and identify threshold levels to switching on, or off precision weed management techniques in Hungarian growing and sales conditions; taking into consideration that the implementation of precision technology can be justified also by its r...

Land property, in the post socialist countries, was rebuilt in the beginning of the 90’s. The process went in different way in Poland and in Hungary. The different initial conditions are resulted in different development in the agricultural economy of these two countries. Now the agriculture had different characteristics. Despite of the fact that t...

The practical implementation of precision crop production nowadays is becoming more and more widespread. Numerous experiments and farmers' practical experiences verify the positive impacts of precision nutrient supply on farming. Precision weed control started to spread later, partly due to technical difficulties, partly to the lack of necessary so...

By applying precision nutrition the yield heterogeneity owing to the different features of soil spots can be taken into consideration. The planned and sprayed fertilizer adjusted to the expected yield rendered to soil spots can reduce the negative effects of artificial chemicals on soil and environment. The aim of this paper is to examine how the q...

The technological elements of precision farming in cereal production have reached the level of its practical implication. In Hungary the expansion has begun recently, but the economic aspects of introducing this new technology have not yet been cleared exactly. The paper reports about the results of economic research projects and model calculations...

The reduction of chemical use and environmental load in agriculture is increasingly desired. Developed countries promote lower use of pesticides and farmers have to change cultural practices accordingly. The implementation of precision farming promotes rational application of chemicals but requires capital investment. This paper reviews methods use...

Precision farming – besides other aspects – enables the reduction of use of chemical substances in crop production while decreases farming risks, contributes to specific field-crop-plant applications, makes production processes more designable and increases profitability. The introduction of a new technology requires complex farm-management decisio...

Economic expansion revaluates continuously the economic and social role of agriculture. Population explosion in the world generates continuously growing demand on foods and industrial raw materials. Supply of increased demand is supported by R&D, at the same time using results of it polarizes the economies. In the agriculture the technical developm...

The introduction of a new technology requires complex farm-management decisions, including the consideration of economic correlations (costs-yield-income). The positive environmental impacts of utilizing precision farming (nutrient supply, crop protection) as a technological alternative to sustainable agriculture are inevitable, and resulting posit...

The development of soil-crop relation quality is a deliberate human activity, where the labour of the producer was taken over by machine work and the quality of producer skills became more important. Technical progress - as part of technical development - increased the efficiency of production, thus the demand oil labour decreased. As a consequence...

precision farming - besides other aspects - enables the reduction of use of chemical substances in crop production while decreases Fanning risks, contributes to specific field-cropplant applications, makes production processes more plannable and increases profitability. The latter, however, can be realised on farm level only under well-determined e...

High-level pest control has high priority in the competitive agriculture. Within the pest control the weed management has the highest priority in a way of agronomy and economy. In our research we examined different weed management technologies in a way of income considering yield and costs in corn production. Prime factors were the whole field spra...

A köznyelvben üzemnek nevezik azt a helyet, épületet, melyben valamilyen gazdasági egység tevékenykedik, illetve valamilyen termelő tevékenységet folytatnak. Az EU tanácsi és bizottsági jogrendszere viszont az üzemet az üzemtulajdonosok által igazgatott termelőegységként definiálja. Az angolszász országokban a farm elnevezést...

It has been proved that because of the different past of the parcels regarding their soil, agronomical and technological parameters, weed sampling results may not be generalised. Therefore it is necessary to study those solutions how to determine on an acceptable confidence level a parcel's weed infestation with optimised sampling techniques. For s...

The importance of agriculture is decreasing all over the world. The aim of the paper is to compare the ownership structure and land use in some selected former Central and Eastern European countries. The property structure and land use is in dichotomy, the production is performed simultaneously on small-size farms which produce primarily for self-c...

Nowadays, the spread of ecological farming occurs in an ever-accelerating rate in Europe. In the beginning of the 1990s, this process started in Hungary too. Primarily, horticultural bioproduct have appeared on the market; however, farms, which can be regarded as a sample, formed out relatively fast, and made products qualified as plough-land bulk...

Hungary's imminent entrance into the EU calls for a farm-level financial support system aiming at combining agricultural production with nature conservation targets. Within the Hungarian National Agri-environmental Programme (NAEP) for the Environmentally Sensitive Areas, a payment system was developed. For each individual region the amount of supp...

Magyarország csak a vidékgazdaság megfelelő működtetésével lehet eredményes. A vidék az átalakulás időszakában elvesztette népességmegtartó képességét. Ennek a folyamatnak a megállításához új irányok meghatározása aszükséges. A cikk az új fejlesztési irányok meghatározására tesz kísérletet. --------------------...

A mezőgazdaság műszaki fejlesztése lehetőséget nyújt a korszerű technológiák széles körű alkalmazására. Ilyen a precíziós növényvédelem, amely egyben a fenntarthatóság kritériumai érvényesítését is szolgálja. Gyakorlati alkalmazása érdemi vegyszer megtakarítást eredményez. Modellszámítás segítségével vizsgál...

Sustainable development and environmental consciousness is getting more important. It is a requirement of human activity – i.e. agriculture – to use less artificial chemicals, to decrease environmental burden and to ensure the adequate food supply, by fitting the basic economic criteria. Those farming alternatives are shown in the paper that are ba...

Capital efficiency is a very important factor of competitive production. Technical development in countries with developed agriculture does not only focus on the purchase and the application of high performance assets and technology but the need for decreasing the amount capital fixed in farms in order to make production more economical. This aim h...