The title of the National Farmer was awarded

In his welcoming speech, László Kövér, the Speaker of the Parliament, highlighted that the most important mission of the National Farmers is to “literally turn our native land in the Carpathian Basin into a productive land every year and ensure the purity and abundance of our nation’s physical food”. The National Farmer award recognizes the greatest achievements of this mission. In his speech, the Speaker of the Parliament quoted from Albert Wass’s novel Sword and Scythe: “who owns the land, owns the future”. He added: for millennia, devastating wars have been fought for the land. However, the wars of the 21st century are no longer fought only on battlefields; The real weapon today is not the sword or the rifle, but economic influence and ideology. While previously it was at least possible to know who the enemy was and where he came from, today he is hiding, wearing a mask and mostly trying to have the dirty work done by bought traitors: the kidnapping of the future of a people, a country, a continent – he said. As he put it, “the mercenaries are giving out orders from the velvet chairs in Brussels today”. They are trying to banish common sense and straightforward speech from European Union politics, because for them the most dangerous thing is for the European people to see clearly. The President of the National Assembly stressed that one of the most serious betrayals committed against the European people today is the conscious dismantling of European agriculture, the admission of uncontrolled imported goods or the legalization of artificial meat. “The leaders of the European Union are today pursuing a suicidal policy that is endangering one of our most important strategic capabilities, our own food supply,” said the Speaker. At the same time, he reminded that Europe still has the most sustainable food production in the world, under far safer conditions than in any other part of the world. “The political traitors of the European Union” want to eliminate this European agriculture and with it the entire European farming class. He said that European agricultural competitiveness has been systematically undermined from Brussels for years. As an example, he mentioned that the vast majority of corn and soy used in European animal husbandry already comes from Ukraine and South America, just as Ukrainian poultry meat and eggs are also flowing into Europe. European farmers are being tied up by Brussels rules, and then products from farmers outside the European Union who produce without rules are being released onto the European market – said László Kövér, adding that given the developments, it is probably only a matter of time before the EU allows the production and marketing of artificial meat.

Therefore, he believed that it is no coincidence that due to this EU policy, European farmers are already giving up agriculture in increasing numbers.

László Kövér drew attention to the fact that Hungary has chosen a completely different path for agriculture and farmers. Among the measures taken, he mentioned that at the end of last year, the production and marketing of artificial meat in any form in Hungary was banned by law, in order to protect human health, the environment and the traditional rural way of life. He called another important difference that while the European Commission is talking about withdrawing subsidies, the Hungarian government provides domestic farmers with the greatest support within its financial means, as it is unique in Europe in providing several thousand billion forints to producers as well as to actors in the food industry with the largest possible national co-financing of 80 percent. In addition, with one of the strictest land laws in Europe, it has managed to preserve Hungarian land for domestic family farmers. He highlighted that thanks to government measures over the past 15 years, a Hungarian family farming class has now been able to get back on its feet again, providing the basis for the further development of domestic agriculture and the countryside. This year’s awardees of the Farmer of the Nation title are among them, who have made a lasting impact with their expertise in winemaking, grain production or the horticulture sector. They are excellent examples of the ingenuity that colloquially calls “common sense of the peasant”. “In the times ahead, we can only preserve Hungary on the basis of this common sense, just as we can only rebuild Europe on the basis of common sense together with our European partners,” said László Kövér. The title of Farmer of the Nation was established by the AGROTREND Group and was awarded for the third time this year. The title is awarded to a morally impeccable farming professional of the Hungarian nation who has created a lasting impact with his farming, agricultural activities, employer behavior, technological standards, innovations, and social involvement. Last year, the following were awarded: Erzsébet Bata, a farmer from Vojvodina, András Mocz, a forestry engineer and farmer, and József Vancsura, a horticultural engineer and farmer.

MTI