Recycling and upgrading of bone meal for environmental friendly crop production and nutrition (2005-2008)

Sixth Framework programme Priority 5 – Food Quality and Safety
This project is co-funded by the European Commission within the 6th Framework Programme of RTD.



PROTECTOR CONSORTIUM
Árpád Producing, Trading and Servicing Company  


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Team Leader: Mr. László Kovács
http://www.arpad.hu

P12 (ARPAD) is one of the largest agricultural companies in Hungary, founded in 1960 as cooperative. ARPAD is Public Share Company with a founding capital of Ft 3 billion (EUR 12 Million) since 1999, with a 900 employees. Activities:

Horticulture: Arpad is one of the largest greenhouses operator of Hungary and in Europe if the heating method (geothermal energy only) is considered, with 23 hectares of glashouse production year around. 16 hectars were modernized in 1998-2001. for soilless cultivation. In the project of modernization aid from the Dutch government in a value of NLG 1 Million was also successfully applied.

Main crops produced in glasshouses are sweet pepper, tomato, hot green pepper, cucumber. The covered land (also heated) of plastic tunnels is 23 hectares owned by private growers, (mainly ÁRPÁD employees). Main crop is sweet pepper, but hot pepper, tomato, kohlrabi lettuce is also produced. They integrate non heated plastic tunnel growers on 15 hectares, owned also by private growers. Cropping is in two stages, an early crop (Chinese cabbage or white cabbage) than a later crop (sweet pepper, tomato, pepper capia /green and red/). On 40 hectares open air vegetables are produced covered by flies plastic or without cover (chinese cabbage, white cabbage, onion, etc.). Under linear irrigation system sweet corn is produced for processing purposes for Bonduelle. For post harvest handling and grading, packing, storing ÁRPAD run two coolhouses. (Both cca. 2000 m2.)

ÁRPÁD and more than 580 private growers founded a P.O. (Producers Organisation) in 2003. All together more than 17 000 tons of fresh produces will be sold this year in a value of more than HUF 2 billion (EUR 8 Million). Among our home market clients ÁRPÁD deliver regularly for chains like Tesco, Auchan, Interfruct, Cora, Spar and other large supermarkets as well. Their product are also sold in abroad and have a good reputation in Germany in Scandinavian countries, in neighbouring countries as Slovakia, Chech Republic, Poland, Austria, Baltic States, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia Herzegovina etc.The main product (sweet yellow pepper) has the right to use the common quality brand of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development “Quality Food from Hungary”.


ÁRPÁD is active not only on the field of vegetable growing but on other fields as well:

  • Animal husbandry

  • Productions on arable land

  • Feed factory

  • 3 large bakeries

  • Csongrádwine Ltd

Human resources: More than 100 from the total number of employees are having B.Sc or M.Sc or Doctor of Science degrees.

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