The situation of horticultural family farms in Hajdu-Bihar County

The main aim of this research work is to study horticultural farms in Hajdú-Bihar County, that mobilize labour and capital for thesake of agricultural production, namely family farms. During this study work we tried to chart the main characters, the conditions offunctioning, their profitability and its use possibilities, their external contacts and the resource of information of these farms, beside this toinvestigate the relationships between these parameters. Parallel to this we tried to compensate the relatively high deficiency of information byempirical research work. This deficiency is the characterization of farmers and the inducement of farming and its conditions both on the levelof county and state. By our empirical research work we have made a comprehensive position paper that shows the conditions of farms andfarmer populations, as well. Two hundred questionnaires were evaluated. The percentages of horticultural farms were 25% from allquestionnaires. Above all this paper is looking for the answer to the following questions: How and by which sources do farmers develop andextent their farms? How do farmers see their own future, what kind of aims do they have?Who will stop and who will go on producing? Thecollected information on the whole may help to make much more flexible legislatives and administrative regulations, although the surveycovered only one county

The Role of Human Factor in the Innovation of Apricot Production-Empirical Study in a Disadvantage Area of East-Central European Country

Hungary is a traditional fruit growing country for ages. As fruit sector has a very high hand work request and value added, ithas an important role to decrease the elimination of unemployment and the lack of income in the disadvantage rural areas. The study wasmade in the year of 2009, the studied population consisted of the members of the fruit-grower marketing organization (Gyümölcsért Ltd.),that organizes growing and sales of stone fruits in Hungary. The number of studied population were 95 capita, the number of fi lled out andevaluated questionnaires was 35. By the composition of the questions both qualitative and quantitative methods have been used. We tried toget answers to the following questions: Are the studied human factors (age, educational level, sex etc.) of growers, determined the extensionof innovation of apricot production

The Role of Human Factor in the Innovation of Apricot Production-Empirical Study in a Disadvantage Area of East-Central European Country

Hungary is a traditional fruit growing country for ages. As fruit sector has a very high hand work request and value added, it has an important role to decrease the elimination of unemployment and the lack of income in the disadvantage rural areas. The study was made in the year of 2009, the studied population consisted of the members of the fruit-grower marketing organization (Gyümölcsért Ltd.), that organizes growing and sales of stone fruits in Hungary. The number of studied population were 95 capita, the number of fi lled out and evaluated questionnaires was 35. By the composition of the questions both qualitative and quantitative methods have been used. We tried to get answers to the following questions: Are the studied human factors (age, educational level, sex etc.) of growers, determined the extension of innovation of apricot production