Organic farming support and its current situation in Hungarian Land Policy

Abstract

Organic farming is evolving worldwide, both production and consumption growing steadily. Despite the outbreak
of this cultivation trend, Hungarian farmers apply only a small extent of the potential opportunities, so the
agricultural government wanted to increase the size of the agricultural land in organic farming in line with the
EU objectives. The National Rural Strategy for the Development of Ecological Management sets the goal for
Hungary to increase the area of organic farming to 350,000 hectares by 2020. In order to achieve these goals, the
status of organic farming should be studied in the Hungarian land policy system. The aim of the research is to
carry out a comprehensive analysis of the consequences in the land policy resulting from the support system of
organic farming. The study presents the most important rules affecting the sector and the aid for agriculture and
rural development system. The current CAP runs from 2014 to 2020, so it is particularly interesting to see what
changes can be expected in the post-2021 support system. The dissertation analyses the new regulation applicable
after 2021 on organic farming, the Regulation 2018/848 of the European Parliament and of the Council.