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”LivestockSense”: the applicability of digital technologies in livestock farming

News2021.06.11.

The Institute of Agricultural Economics (AKI) is going to participate in a two-year-long project, „Enhancing environmental sustainability of livestock farms by removing barriers for adopting ICT technologies (LivestockSense)”, funded by ERA-NET COFUND ICT-AGRI-FOOD and National Research, Development and Innovation Fund. The project will assess the acceptance and applicability of information and communication technology (ICT) based…

EU FarmBook knowledge platform – a reliable source of information for local users

News2021.05.25.

A user-friendly farmers knowledge reservoir is very much needed in Hungary, that is why it is important for NAK and AKI to be a part of the EUREKA project and support the development of a European online Knowledge Repository – Interview with Anikó Nagy from the Hungarian Chamber of Agriculture (NAK) and Szabolcs Vágó from Institute of Agricultural…

The project aiming to create a European Knowledge Repository ended with an online national event

News2021.03.31.

The event jointly organized by NAK and AKI on 22nd March 2021, was the national closing event of the international EURAKNOS project in Hungary. Without effective knowledge transfer, innovation results would not reach farmers, and research results would not support their development. That is why it is especially important for AKI to participate as a…

The FLINT project is one of the establishing projects of the Farm Sustainability Data Network

News2021.03.22.

A conference on “Development of information systems and data management practices for CAP evaluation” was organized by the ENRD between 16th and 17th of March. The Sen4CAP (Sentinels for Common Agricultural Policy) project was presented on the event. The project is implemented under the auspices of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development,…

The publication of retail buying prices in AKI MPIS has started

News2021.03.03.

To enhance agricultural and food market transparency at EU level, the price notification obligation has been expanded from the 1st of January 2021. In Hungary, the price notification obligation is fulfilled by the Market Price Information System (MPIS) of the AKI Institute of Agricultural Economics. According to the new European Union price notification obligation, the…

Kick-off of the FARMWELL H2020 project

News2021.03.02.

FARMWELL is a Horizon 2020 Thematic Network that aims at identifying and making social innovations more accessible to address common social challenges and improve the wellbeing of farmers. The serious social challenges that farmers are facing – including mental health issues and depression, isolation, physical risks, stress caused by negative societal perceptions, challenges of farm…

A cooperation agreement has been signed between the Institute of Agricultural Economics and the Óbuda University