Abstract
Our objective was to analyse the situation of Hungarian language agricultural higher education in Romania. Our analyses have been focused mainly on Kovászna county. Following the evaluation of the characteristics of the county, we assessed the situation of Hungarian language higher education in Romania. History is considered important, because Hungarian language agricultural higher education goes back to the 1860s. The best solution for measuring the current reputation was the completion of questionnaires, which was done by 140 randomly selected people in Kovászna county. Following the evaluation and analysis of the questionnaires we found that local agricultural education, plant production and livestock farming are important activities for the locals. However, it is sure that even if they are satisfied with the education, they consider continuous development very important, since it would be a major help for the employment and subsistence of fresh graduates in Kovászna county.
Highlights
The diverse geographic situation of Székely Land allowed the creation of various economic activities in terms of different geographic area types: mountains, plateaus and lowlands
The model farm had a territory of 755 acres, which was hired by the Hungarian state from the church of Kolozsmonostor for 30 years
Based on the questionnaires we found that the two most successful fields of expertise are cultivation (17.1%) and livestock farming (15.7%), which are followed by rural tourism (5.7%)
Summary
The diverse geographic situation of Székely Land allowed the creation of various economic activities in terms of different geographic area types: mountains, plateaus and lowlands. The diverse terrain is mostly mountains where tourism and livestock farming (sheep, cattle) are popular activities, but it includes open areas which are advantageous for agriculture. The East Carpathians cover almost the entire area of Kovászna and Hargita counties (Györffy, 1941; Anderca et al, 1991; Bözödi, 1997, Bodor, 2003; Balog et al, 2008). Land which consists of Hargita, Kovászna and Maros counties and has 1.2 million inhabitants is an average area of Romania in terms of development. The economic performance ability of the area within the new economic field changed only because its indexes represent average performance in Romanian comparison system according to Bözödi (2002)
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