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Well-established scientific and technical
background
• The efficient scientific and research activity,
well-known and appreciated in foreign
countries as well, can be attributed to 60
highly qualified research workers with 1
member of HAS, 5 academic doctors; and 18
candidates and scientists with Ph.D. degree,
respectively, among them. Research workers
participate both in the domestic and foreign
scientific public life in numerous associations
and corporations, and they are also cooperators
in joint projects with foreign
partners.
• The operating capital of Cereal Research
Non-Profit Ltd. amounts to more than one
billion HUF. The level of mechanization,
instrumentation and computerization ensures
the technical conditions of compatible crop
improvement and the efficient continuation of
goal-oriented laboratory analysis.
• The success in participation in R&D projects
has been guaranteed by the scientific and
research activity of our company. The
company has participated in 23 funded R&D
projects since 2000, with 3 EU projects
among them.
• Farmers may rely on our extension service for
crop production. The company publishes the
journal Kutatás és Marketing (Research and
Marketing) and the quarterly Cereal Research
Communi cations.
• The company’s research workers have
authored or co-authored more than one
thousand scientific and popular scientific
articles in the past decade.
• Online information is available on the
company at their website (http://www.
gabona kutato.hu) and on that of Farmit
Agroportal (http://www.farmit.hu).
• Being visiting lecturers of universities (SzIE,
SzTE, DE) and professors of the affiliated
doctoral departments, the company’s research
workers have integ rated researches and
agricultural education.
• The breeding, marketing, seed multi plication
and sale of crops is based on a network of
more than 200 domestic partners and 50
foreign companies and institutions embracing
the research and market sphere.
• The company’s innovations and novel
products were awarded the Grand Prize of the
Hungarian Innovation Foundation, the Prize
for Agrarian Innovation of the Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural Development (3 times),
and the Prize for Innovation of OMFB
(Committee of National Technical Develop -
ment). At agricultural exhibitions, our
commitment to high quality has been
acknowledged by receiving the Grand Prize
for Produce, Prize for Produce (3 times), Extra
Award, and the Prize of the Plant Production
Branch of the Ministry of Agriculture and
Rural Development in the past five years. The
international recognition of the company is
highlighted by the Prize for Seed of
International Exhibition in Canada and the
International Trophy for Seed Export.
Data demonstrating the company’s major
achievements from the start
• Totally 370 plant varieties were registered
during the period from 1929 to 2009, the
distribution of which is as follows:
1929–1975: 29
1976–2000: 250
2001–2004: 48
2005–2009: 43
• The total number of registrations can be
broken down to cultivars as follows:
corn 120
wheat 85
barley 20
sunflower 54
sorghum 20
linseed 15
winter rapeseed 10
oats 6
seasoning paprika 5
miscellaneous cultivars 35
• Patents and PVPs:
Total number of patents: 161
Total number of patents pending: 21
Patents and PVPs in force
in September 2009: 88
János Matuz
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