Students from the University of Pannonia's Georgikon Faculty have formed the country's first university young farmers club with the support of AGRYA (the Hungarian Young Farmers' Association). The goal of the new club, formed in Keszthely, is for students to gain first hand experience regarding how agriculture works and the life of young farmers.

The Georgikon Young Farmers Club will help students become acquainted with the life of family run farms, as well as technical, pest control, administrative, financial and farm management practices in agriculture.

The guests and speakers at the club's meetings will be practicing young farmers. Their personal examples may help students decide to begin their careers within the field of agriculture after completing their studies.

Meetings will be held once a month, and will be complemented by regular field trips around the country, organised by AGRYA. Heartened by the Keszthely initiative, the organisation is working to promote the formation of similar clubs in other agrarian higher education institutions.

(Press Office of the Ministry of Rural Development)