Hidrológiai Közlöny, 2016 (96. évfolyam)
2016 / 3. szám - HISTORICAL SNAPSHOT - Ligetvári Ferenc: The power of irrigation
42 Hungarian Journal of Hydrology Vol. 96. No. 3. 2016. Consequence: Taxation originating from the surplus yield resulting from investments contributes to the increase of national economy. Increase of the processing capacity Reason: After the change of regime the high-capacity canneries closed down. Consequence: Products could be produced on an industrial scale meeting the international market demands and through organized buying trade relationships can be maintained on the long term. Increase of the cooling capacity Reason: In order to preserve the nutritional value of goods produced and harvested at appropriate temperature the creation of „preserving conditions” becomes necessary. Consequence: Harvesting in state of maturity that means a product with high nutritional value for the consumer. Modernisation of the road network Reason: For the fast and safe transportation and in the absence of road conditions adequate to the weather conditions the shaking and the slow transport can result in the loss of value of the goods. Consequence: Through semi-stable (improved structure) road structure with cambered cross-section the development of safe transportation. Interest representation initiative for the maintenance of community facilities as needed Reason: For the cost effectiveness through regular maintenance of road and sewer network the access to the production areas must be ensured. Consequence: Development of fast transportation, drainage of the excess water from agricultural fields, maintenance of the required growing period. Organization of trainings at various levels Reason: There is no targeted academic agricultural water management professional training in Hungary. Consequence: Near the production areas higher level vocational training (2 years), BSc and MSc training should be established. Through a prepared farmer society rational cultivation can be performed meeting international challenges too. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The recommendation in the article was formulated consulting with Mr. György Dobos Senior Executive Advisor of Ministry of Agriculture. Hereby the Author expresses his thanks for this help. REFERENCES Budavári, K. (2013). Warnings of Kurt Budavári, hydraulics engineer with ruby degree. Private edition, Budapest, p.65. (In Hungarian). Dobos, György (2014): Supporting Irrigated Agriculture, Manuscript, p.2, Budapest (In Hungarian) Ligetvári, Ferenc and Nagy, István (2015). Timely tasks of irrigation. Manuscript, p.2, Debrecen. (In Hungarian) OVF - General Directorate for Water Management (2014). National Irrigation Survey - 2014. Internal report. Budapest. (In Hungarian). World Water Council (2000). A Water Secured World. Vision for Water, Life and the Environment. A World Commission for Water in the 21st Century Report. http://www.worldwatercouncil.org/fileadmin/wwc/Librar y/Publications and reports/Visions/CommissionReport.p df THE AUTHOR FERENC LIGETVÁRI is a garden designer, water management engineer, university professor, Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His research field is the agricultural environmental design, agricultural water management and technologies influencing the harmony of nature and society, statutory provisions and contradictions. He obtained a garden designer degree at the Garden Designer Faculty of the College of Horticulture and Viticulture in 1966. He studied and obtained an agricultural water management engineer degree at the Technical University of Budapest between 1970 and 1973. After obtaining his garden designer degree he got an assistant research fellow position in the Production Development Institute of the College of Agricultural Sciences of Keszthely. He became assistant lecturer at the University of Horticulture and Food Sciences in 1969 and later he gained his senior lecturer and associate professor positions. He worked at the university until 1987 then he was appointed associate professor and head of department at the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Pannónia (Georgikon) in Keszthely. In 1994, he was appointed head of faculty at the Agricultural College Faculty of the Kossuth Lajos University (which was named University of Debrecen from 2000) in Szarvas. In 1996 he received his professor nomination. In 2000 he became a professor at the Environmental Management Faculty of the independent Tessedik Sámuel College of Szarvas. From 2003 he educated at the Szent István University of Gödöllő, first in the Agricultural and Regional Economics Institute of the Faculty of Economic Studies then he educated as the head of department at the Water Management and Melioration Department of the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences until 2006. He was one of the vice rectors of the university between 2004 and 2006. In 2011 he was awarded the Professor Emeritus title.
