ABSTRACT
This chapter examines key questions regarding the development of Hungarian agriculture in the 1970s so that each question can be examined in adequate detail. After 1968 the sphere of activity of Hungarian farms was broadened from crop growing and animal husbandry to include significant non-agricultural activities. Among the most important results of development was that in the first half of the 1970s Hungary solved its cereal problem. The Hungarian level of meat production was 133 kg/per head in 1980 which is quite high in comparison to other countries. For the evaluation of Hungarian food consumption in an international perspective useful information is furnished by the analysis of the Economic Research Institute. Hungarian agriculture made an important contribution to the maintenance of the equilibrium of the foreign-trade balance. Policymakers regarded small-scale production as a lasting and organic aspect of Hungarian agriculture. The development of Hungarian agriculture can be successful in the 1980s only if agriculture takes a new path of growth.
