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1.Árpád FERENCZ, 2. Márta NÓTÁRIMANAGEMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN COLLAGE OFKECSKEMÉT1‐2.COLLEGE OF KECSKEMÉT, HORTICULTURAL FACULTY, HUNGARYABSTRACT: Taking all these challenges into consideration, training of farmers is a strategic task regarding the future of thecountry's future, to which College of Kecskemét is also willing to contribute actively. Beyond the basic training our goal is toprovide further professional training for the farmers in order to make them acquire economic, management, regional andknowledge, and use it as a skill. The goal is to make them be able to accomplish management of production processes,organization, professional administration and consultancy tasks. With their advanced knowledge they need to be able tointerpret the EU rural development policy, to plan and carry out programs.KEYWORDS: rural development, basic training, goals, programsINTRODUCTIONAs Hungary is a member of the EU, it is important tomeet the EU requirements and legislation. During theaccession negotiations, one of the most critical areaswas the environmental protection and specializedagricultural administration which proved to be asignificant gap to be overcome. To do so the existenceof a significant number of well‐trained professionals,who are capable to take appropriate actions, carry outa high level achievements according to the EuropeanUnion directives and requirements, is outstandinglyimportant and highly necessary.The most significant challenges of the sand ridge towhich the College of Kecskemét Horticultural Facultyhas to find an educational strategy are drying andwater scarcity. The most urgent tasks are summarizedbelow: the county's agricultural and rural developmentconcept should be based on a strategy which hasbeen elaborated to deal with drying‐upon the ridge area further production extension,agro‐environmental program expansion in abroader range, an appropriate adjustment of landutilisation to the conditions (stop the forestation,prefer the cultivated farms). utilize the dry‐agriculture in its maximumpotential, disperse drought‐resistant species andvarieties, and support related (applied) researchand development functions, the priority development of animal husbandry, retention and development of large‐scalecultivation, dissemination of the concept and means ofprecision agriculturefrom the side of wider economy, it is recommended todevelop three sectors: environmental industry, foodprocessing, rural tourism.MATERIAL AND METHODS. Agricultural training inHorticulture FacultyThe College of Kecskemét Horticultural Faculty doesextended research nationally and internationally,especially in applied research fields which are in closerelationship with our educational profile.The research of Faculty fields are ornamental plant‐,vegetable‐, fruit‐ and vine‐growing, processing,machinery, economics, marketing, informatics andenvironmental protection. Three inventions andseveral innovations mark our research results. Fromamong the inventions developed at the Faculty theframeless foil early growing method developed by theVegetable Growing Institute is worth mentioning. It isused in more than 3000 hectare nationally.The present projects of Faculty are on organic controlproducts, developing environmentally friendlygrowing technologies, modelling sustainabledevelopment on the sand table‐land between theRivers Danube and Tisza, bio‐ethanol‐based utilisationof agricultural products. We intend to publish ourresults widely in national and international literature,at scientific conferences and discussions.The Faculty organizes several professional conferencesand exhibitions. The students of faculty also take partin the research projects of the institutions. Local andnational student researchers’ conferences provide agreat opportunity for discussing and presenting theirresearch results.For post‐graduates in college education we offerdifferent specialist engineering further educationalcourses such as Specialised Engineer of IntegratedFruit Growing, Specialised Engineer of Agro‐Environment, Vini‐ and Viticulture SpecialisedEngineer, Rural Development Manager, SpecialisedEngineer of Greenery Farming, Specialised Engineer ofVegetable Forcing and Mushroom Growing.The Faculty has regular further education courses forpeople with basic, secondary and higher educationqualifications in Flower arrangement, Park keeping,Pruning, Plant protection, soil protection, fruit andvegetable storing, vine‐growing, wine‐making andother fields. Silver spike farmer, Gold spike farmer,Agricultural entrepreneur training courses (which areon the national vocational training list) are alsopopular. Besides the training courses, our faculty is an© copyright FACULTY of ENGINEERING ‐ HUNEDOARA, ROMANIA 31