Az agrárgazdaság EU-adaptációja
EU Adoption of the Agriculture

Summary/Abstract: Potential pressures, economic and social challenges EU adoption takes place just after a transformation crisis which was accompanied by a significant loss in the role agriculture plays in the national economy in the new EU member states of Central and Eastern Europe. This time can be characterised as a transformation depression. Agricultural policy was not able to manage the crisis and the depression and structural problems. This study takes Hungary as an example in order to analyse the above propositions. Adoption opens up new possibilities, but, on the other hand, is accompanied by deep rooting pressures, which can emerge even in the short run, mostly because of the inherent agricultural structural problems and failures of agricultural policy. These pressures are the following: – difficulties in adopting the relevant acquis; – turmoil in the institutional adoption of the EU support system; – short run financial difficulties, cash flow gap may emerge as regards agricultural producers; – significant disturbances on product markets, adoption shocks can be expected (especially in certain livestock sectors); – due to the above mentioned facts adoption related loss, less favourable transfer balance and significant decrease of agricultural performance is possible. These pressures and some other factors may result in significant medium and long term problems: – permanent competitiveness problems may arise in certain sectors, which has already been in critical situation; – further loss in the role agriculture plays in the national economy and decreasing agricultural sustaining ability can be expected; – threatening assimilation turmoil of the agricultural structure; – potentially unfavourable developments of the EU Common Agricultural Policy (e.g.: re-nationlaisation). The accession process push therefore vigorously to the surface the inherent Hungarian agricultural structural problems and unsolved questions of the transformation crisis and depression. Successful agricultural adoption is unimaginable without the management of the basic structural problems. Sectoral policies play an important, but not exclusive role in the management of these problems. Management of the agricultural crisis and depression, and finding the devices that cover wider nexuses is a challenge also for the wider economic and social policy.

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