The PTE Viticulture and Enology Research Institute has renewed its machinery and winemaking equipment

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The PTE statement stated that the institute, founded on a 300-year-old church estate in 1949, at the beginning of the development of agricultural research in Hungary, has implemented the most significant technological development in its history thanks to the 890 million forints support of the Rural Development Program of the Ministry of Agriculture. As part of the project, the institute’s viticultural machinery and winemaking equipment were completely renewed, thus acquiring a total of 45 modern devices – including four tractors and a combine harvester, as well as two agricultural drones. They also undertook to organize 27 public programs over 10 months to introduce modern, sustainable, innovative technologies, processes, and good practices.

The development is not only vital for the operational sustainability of the institute, but also indicates broader support for the Hungarian agricultural research sector

The investment also provides an opportunity for institutions involved in secondary and higher education and vocational training to introduce modern, widely usable machines to those participating in training, they emphasized. The goal of the PTE SZBKI is to actively participate in the foundational secondary vocational school training in addition to university education in the future, thus improving the quality of vocational training and contributing to the continuous development and confident knowledge of future professionals.

The PTE SZBKI plays a decisive role in the development of Hungarian viticulture and winemaking

The grape gene bank maintained by the research institute, which is under continuous development and expansion, currently contains nearly 1,600 items from all over the world, 300 varieties specifically from the Carpathian Basin, making it the second largest such institution in Europe and the sixth largest in the world – the university’s announcement reads.

MTI