Hungary: Changing climate, changing seeds

Crops also have to adapt to changing climatic conditions - but this does not happen overnight. It will take up to a decade to produce a new hybrid. The question is therefore how Hungarian seed production can meet the challenges posed by the European Green Agreement and climate change in the next seven to ten years. When it comes to seeds, let’s start with the stove: why is it important to change the seeds? Why are the varieties we keep in gene banks at the moment not good? Why don't we grow Bánkuti wheat? We talked about all this with Géza Takács, the president of the Seed Association, who said that they, seed breeders and growers, are motivated by how to prepare for the future, how to produce the right amount and quality of food for the next generation. Challenges before the food production of the future We have to start from the fact that there is an environment that is changing in itself and we humans have done a great deal to change and unfortunately go in the wrong direction ...