‘Grow Your Own’ & ‘Rural Adventure’

programmes of

AGRYA

Agricultural and Rural Youth Association Hungary

Dr. Miklos Weisz

associate president

Young farmers and the family farming

27 – 29 Nov 2014, Hokovce

- Established: 1996

- Association of Rural Youth until 2000

- From 2000: opening to agricultural professional activity

- From 2004 agric. and rural development professional organisation

- More than 4000 contacts

- Structural reform 2010.

- National and International (CEJA, CERYC, RYE) activity

About AGRYA

- Infrastructural deficiencies (basic and cultural infrastructure)

- Economic reasons (lack of work places, youth unemployment)

- Social and ethnic pressure

- Poor level of communities

- Concentration of agricultural production

- Restricted availability of resources (e.g. land)

- Lack of work force and unemployment in rural areas

Depopulation, emptying of rural areas

- European and Hungarian tendency -

Extended social environment of the topic ‘Rural’

Challenges:

There is a lack of correct information about rural life and agriculture

-‘Syren voices’ of mass media

- Missing or lost knowledge – changes in lifestyle

- Gastro pressure in the communication ‘Rural’

AGRYA answers for the challenges

Rural life and farming can be ‘trendy’ and ‘sexy’!

Young Farmer Thematic Subprogramme

‘Grow Your Own’ Programme

‘Rural Adventure’ Programme

‘Virtual Village’ Programme

Researches about young farmers and rural youth

Rural and Farming Orientation Campaigns

More than a reality show - Reality itself!

Aims and structure

Basic idea: give the possibility to ‘adventuresome’ urban youth to work 1 week together with a young farmer and gain direct experiences

Call for urban youth – 4x over-application

Casting

Training Day

Adventures

story telling, media communication

Youtube, videk-kaland.hu, Facebook

Training Day – June 2013, Kecskemét

What are the basic elements of a seeder?

Rural Adventure Training Day – 7 June 2013 Kecskemét

Work 1 week on a farm

Urban youth

30 participants

About the applicants

-Tipically highly educated, with secure financial background

- Mostly from Budapest

- Open-minded about topic ‘Rural’, through family

- Some of them plan farming

- They have basic conceptions about rural life

- They are health-centered, regularly do sport activities

- Girls are over-represented

It’s time for work &

adventure!

International Rural Adventures

From 2013

Slovakia: similar like in Hungary

Transylvania: Hungarian youth travel to székely young farmers

Transylvania

2013

Results and Future

- They understand better what happens in agriculture

- They get a real picture about conventional (sometimes demonised)

agricultral production

- Personal connections, experiences about the everyday rural life

- Changing attitude as consumers

- Inspiration for an own farm

„Taste the spirit of

adventure”

„If you believed, that hay is for horses,

it's time to learn what straw is for.”

- Strong media interest

- Rural news are interesting – worthy to deal with

- Continuation is needed,

participants need meetings off-farm as well

Rural Adventure Club Meetings

Budapest, Oct-Febr

European acknowledgement

The Best EU-cofinanced CAP Communication Programme 2012

(From 183 applicants)

Grow Your Own!

www.vesdbelemagad.hu

Attitude shaping programme

Showing agricultural production for children

Primary school pupils (6-10 years old children)

get seed packages

with various vegetable seeds (e.g. onion, pea, radish, carrot,…)

to plant them at home with the family.

Children grow the plants, the family consumes together.

With little efforts the family can produce fresh vegetables for own.

Attitude shaping programme

Showing agricultural production for children

24.675 children in 394 schools

Discovering lost knowledge – caused by changes in lifestyle

The programme affects parents through the children.

Based only on sponsors and donations.

Transparency: www.vesdbelemagad.hu

Agricultural promotion webpage for children.

Attitude shaping programme

Showing agricultural production for children

- Based on volunteers

- Aim: attitude shaping

- Social responsibility of young farmers

- Teachers – coordinating functions (tasks, farm visits, contacts,…)

- Competition – lottery for class excursion

Results, acknowledgements

- Excellent communities in the classrooms

- Better grades of participants

- Healthy competitive spirit

- Gardening becomes a family programme

- Parents – School connection improves

- Conscious consumers, cahnging consumer attitude

Thank you for your attention!

Contact: www.agrya.hu

Fiatal Gazdák Magyarországi Szövetsége

1138 Budapest, Váci út 134/C.

agrya@agrya.hu telefon/fax: +36 1 3200 429

Young farmers in the Hungarian

Rural Development Programme 2014-2020

Conference on Young Farmers and Family Farming

ASSOCIATION OF SLOVAK YOUNG FARMERS

Dávid Mezei dr.

Deputy state secretary

PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE

Hokovce – Egeg, Slovakia 28.11.2014.

Share of V4 in EU Agriculture

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2

4

6

8

10

12

14

16

18

20

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

In %

Share of V4 in EU

agricultural land

Share of V4 in EU

agricultural output

Share of V4 in EU

agricultural investment

Source: EUROSTAT

CAP I – Support for Young Farmers

Obligatory: max. 2% of the direct payment national envelope.

Conditions:

• Young farmer not older than 40, who:

- begins his/her agricultural activity in 2015, or

- has begun his/her agricultural activity not earlier than 5 years.

• Up to 5 years.

• Upper ceiling of support: 90 ha.

• Amount of payment: 25% of the average amount of direct payment (equals to ̴ 66 €/ha).

CAP II: Main Objectives of the

New Rural Development Programme

Job creation

• Protecting existing jobs and creating new jobs in rural areas

Promoting small- and medium sized (family) farmers

• Employing more than big farms

Sustainability, combating climate change

• Increasing energy efficiency, promoting the use of renewable energy resources

Main measures of the

New Rural Development Programme

• Supporting investment in labour-intensive sectors: horticulture, animal

husbandry;

• Increasing the share of higher added value products: food processing industry,

local markets;

• Increasing production safety (irrigation, investment in risk management);

• Developing rural infrastructure and promoting the use of locally produced

raw material (local roads, local raw material used in public catering, increasing

energy efficiency of public buildings).

Allocation of funds

1% 1% 2% 2% 3%

4%

5%

5%

6%

6%

7%

21%

37%

Quality schemes

Cooperation

Konwledge transfer and advisory services

Producer groups

Risk management and risk prevention

Animal welfare

LEADER

Farm and business development

Basic services in rural areas

Forestry

Natura 2000 and areas facing natural

constraintsAgri-environment and organic

Investment

Investment measures

3% 6%

8%

10%

10%

14%

49%

Short supply chains

Other

Young farmer

Horticulture

irrigation, water

management

Animal husbandry

Food processing

Young Farmer

Thematic Subprogramme

General criteria

• No more than 40 years of age

• Adequate skills and competence

I. Start up aid (40.000 €)

• Only for „new” young farmers

II. Special investment „envelopes”

• „New” and „old” young farmers (max. 5 years of activity)

• Higher intensity rates

– Irrigation, water management;

– Animal husbandry;

– Horticulture;

– Agro-innovation Operational Group

Ďakuje ti veľ i pek e za tvoju pozor osť

Ako (ne)zbohatnúť na cesnaku!

Ing. Tomáš Baran

Agramedis, s.r.o.

www.nascesnak.sk

Naša vízia

• Tržná produkcia kvalitného cesnaku

• Pestovanie lokálnych odrôd

• Čo najosobnejšia prezentácia ponúkaného produktu

Začiatky

• Rok 2012, zháňanie sadbového materiálu

• Výroba sadzača

• Výsadba 1.11.2012

Pestovateľská technológia

• Z home-made strojov, cez najmodernejšiu technológiu k optimalizácii

• Problém voda a buriny!

• Pestovanie podľa správnej farmárskej praxe (bio?)

• Ručná práca! • Kvalita!

• Zázemie

Ekonomika

• Cena založenia 1 ha od 4000-7000 euro

• Silná závislosť na cene ľudskej práce v regióne

• Náklady na pozberové spracovanie

• Celkové náklady na 1 kg cca 1,50-2,00 eur

Budovanie značky

• „Face to Face“ ponuka/predaj... • Low cost marketing, www.nascesnak,

facebook, spriatelené weby...

Odbyt produkcie

• Maloobchod – veľmi ziskový, časovo náročný, komunitný predaj...

• e-shop problém s tranzitnými nákladmi...

• Veľkoobchod – v obmedzenom množstve, problém ceny...

Budúcnosť

• Stabilizácia výroby, technické zázemie v pozberovom spracovaní...

• Kontrakty!

• Rozšírenie porfólia (paličiaky/nepaličiaky) • Certifikácie...

• Produkcia sadbového materiálu...

Občianske združenie

Slovenský cesnak

Projekty ktoré riešime alebo sú v súčasnosti v príprave :

• Záchrana a udržanie genofondu cesnaku

• Certfikácia produkcie slovenského cesnaku

• Výskum úžitkových a pestovateľských vlastností cesnaku

• Príprava odborných materiálov a publikácii pre

pestovateľov cesnaku

Ďakujem za pozornosť

Udržateľnosť a efektivita malých a rodinných fariem očami

začínajúceho mladého farmára

SHR Ing. Ladislav Balázs 27.11.2014, Hokovce

Obsah

• Prečo prvovýroba

• Myšlienka a stratégia

• Zázemie a plány do budúcnosti

Prečo prvovýroba

• Rodinná firma - predaj strojov a technológií – Prístup k najnovším poznatkom (výstavy, školenia,

farmy) – Priama dostupnosť najnovších strojov a technológií

(dodávatelia, zákazníci) – Vlastná výroba, nielen poradenstvo

• Poľnohospodárska pôda v prenájme – Areál s poľnohospodárskou pôdou, rybníkom a

skleníkmi • Diverzifikácia podnikateľskej činnosti v danom

odvetví • zvýšenie kvality a podielu domácich produktov

na trhu – udržanie malých rodinných fariem

Myšlienka a stratégia

• Prvovýroba – rodinná tradícia trochu inak – predchádzajúce generácie – RV aj ŽV – bez finalizácie – strata ekonomickej efektivity

• Nová myšlienka – využívanie najmodernejších technológií a

poznatkov – finalizácia a priamy predaj výrobkov – dynamické prispôsobovanie sa trhu a

neustály pokrok

Zázemie a plány do budúcnosti

• Okres Galanta

• Poľnohospodárska pôda cca 1,5 ha • Skleníky • Prevádzková budova • Rybník • Vybudovanie farmy - 3 fázový časový

harmonogram

Rybník

Pôda

Skleník

Zázemie a plány do budúcnosti

• Poľnohospodárska pôda - 1,5 ha (fáza I) – prvé založenie úrody v roku 2014 – Pôdoochranné technológie a podpora

biologického života v pôde – Špeciálne plodiny ako surovina pre vlastné

produkty – Mechanizácia v službách, časom vlastná

Zázemie a plány do budúcnosti

• 4 skleníky (fáza II) – Bývalé záhradníctvo – Nutná rekonštrukcia – fondy EÚ – Pestovanie špeciálnych plodín – Zelenina, liečivé rastliny – Výroba vlastných výrobkov a priamy predaj

Zázemie a plány do budúcnosti

• Prevádzková budova (fáza II)

• Priamo pri skleníkoch • Nutná rekonštrukcia • Inžinierske siete pri budove • Prevádzkareň a predaj z dvora

Zázemie a plány do budúcnosti

• Rybník cca 3 ha (fáza III) – Prenájom – rybársky zväz – Rôzne alternatívy

• Agroturistika • Vlastný chov rýb a priamy predaj • Spoločný projekt s externým partnerom (odpredaj) • Fondy EÚ

Ďakujem za pozornosť

KONTAKT

SHR Ladislav Balázs

0903 571 432 balazsjr@agritechnika.sk

www.agritechnika.sk https://www.facebook.com/www.agritechnika.sk