Hungary at GFFA: Farmers need equal access to digitalisation opportunities
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Taking part in the Global Food and Agriculture Forum (GFFA) in Berlin, Hungary’s farm minister said all farmers should be able to take equal advantage of the opportunities arising from the revolutionising of agriculture through digitalisation.
István Nagy told MTI on Saturday at the world’s largest agricultural fair that digitalisation is leading to sweeping changes in the sector.
The state, he said, can build the basic infrastructure for digitalisation, and in this respect Hungary “is on the right track” as it starts to implement 5G networks.
But economies of scale are also an important factor, he added. Returns on digital investments are starkly different for large-scale agribusinesses compared to small farms, “so we also need to look at how to ensure equal opportunities,” Nagy said.
Digitalisation helps to boost productivity and meet consumer expectations, he said. Produce can also be tracked from farm to table. Also, it helps in the fight against climate change, he added.
Meanwhile, on the topic of negotiations within the framework of International Green Week, which is being held in parallel to the GFFA, Nagy noted that more and more European countries are involved in GMO-free soybean cultivation, with Switzerland signing the European Soya Declaration spearheaded by Hungary, Germany and Austria. Switzerland, he added, is seen as a leader in environmental protection, and so its signing up to the declaration would add force to Hungary’s efforts in the vanguard of creating GMO-free agriculture.
21st -century Agriculture is too globalized for its own good.
Any Distruption in the global Economy is going empty supermarket Shelves within a few Days…leading to to same Situation facing Venezuela today.
Now Venezuela has a year-round growing Season & no Migrants to feed, which is not the Case in Europe, but that has not kept that Country from being swept by Famine.
2st-century Agriculture…the Agriculture that comes out of the Great Famine soon to hit Europe will be that of “municipality-based Grocery Plantations”…& have Nothing to do with the Internet.