The forms of cooperation which are common in Hungarian agriculture are fundamentally different from those characteristic of Western Europe. This was caused principally by the collectivization process implemented after the Second World War. Our paper presents the various forms of cooperation found in Hungarian agriculture and food industry, form the beginning of the 20th century to our present days. The socialist reorganization of Hungarian agriculture resulted in close ties between the entities engaged in agriculture and food industry, creating straightforward product chains and enabling the modernization of production processes. Co-ops and state farms, as well as production systems and agroindustrial corporations employed state-of-the-art technologies of... |