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The main modification properties are until now the animal husbandary and the seed
production for abroad, marketing line.
The most important production areas by the volume for hay and seed production are the
districts of the next counties – Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, Békés, Hajdú, and recently Pest,
1st. table.
By the level of average- and the safety of grain (seed) yield excellent districts are
in Tolna, Pest, Komárom-Esztergom counties for many years. Also excellent districts
for good level of the hay production, are Györ-Sopron, Vas and Baranya counties if we
observ the intensiv (1961-1985) period of alfalfa production in, Hungary,(Nagy 1989,
1996). It was very good effect on to the level of seed- and hay production to develop
hungarian varieties which are much better in some indxes, than foreign ones nowdays
too.
The purposes of my presentation are: to show the formation of the districts and
villages of lucerne production and the importance of the soil background.
MATERIAL AND METHODS
The basic of the paper are statistical data have been collected from the Central
Statistical Bureau proceedings, from three different periods. The first (basic) is origins
from 1936-1962 years with the data of 1936,1937, 1938, 1948 1962 years; the second
one comes from 1961-1985 (25 years long period), the third one origins from 2004-
2006 (3 years long period). The (soil) data of the statistical district belong to the
Szabolcs-Szatmár Bereg counties origins from the book of Geczy published in 1968.
The villages belong to the different districts origins from the inter net. The correlation
coefficient was accounted by the programme of excell.
RESULT AND DISCUSSION
Until now the production area of alfalfa in Hungary has changed relative to the period
of 1936-1962. In the meantime, in the period of 1961-1985, area covered by alfalfa
increased with 64%. From this time the area, until nowdays has decreased with 41,5%
relative to the basic data. Relative to 1961-1985’s data the decreasing is 64,3%.
The position of alfalfa a bit altered by the excellent plantig activity of some county,
eg. Szabocs Szatmár Bereg, betwen 2004-2006. The percent proportion of some county
in the view point of alfalfa production also has changed in this period, because, nine
county has increased the production area. In ten county has been decreasedt it, 1.
táblázat
Among the statistical district of Szabolcs - Szatmár – Bereg county there are two
with very high value in the basic period, one of them is the Tiszavasvári, the another
one is the Fehérgyarmati.
The alfalfa production value both of them is more than 10 percent. To the first one
belong nine villages, to the second one belong forthy nine.
Studying the soil properties of the statistical districts, can establish, in Szabolcs
Szatmár Bereg, the position of the acid soils relates to the proportion of lucerne
utilization. The coefficient of correlation betwen them is 0,8, 2nd table.
There are high variability in the village range data. In the basic period some village has
considerable proportion relative to the total utilzation area. More than fithy percent of
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