Vegetable Growing Research Center


The Vegetable Growing Research Center (ZKK) can count among its legal predecessors the predecessor institutions of the Hungarian hot pepper research, which goes back more than a hundred years. Integrating this, it conducts practical research activities for the vegetable growing sector based on the needs of producers.
The primary goal of nutrient and water supply and cultivation technology experiments is to reduce the effects of changed environmental factors induced by climate change, and to ensure the predictability and thus the profitability of cultivation. The priority task of the breeding activity is to search for new sources of resistance, create DH lines, increase productivity, earliness, internal characteristics, resistance to dominant pathogens and crop safety.
In connection with this, the maintenance of the existing gene collection and the production of high-quality super-elite seed as a breed maintainer in order to serve the needs of producers and preserve biological diversity.

Allspice breeding group
Duties: The main objective of breeding is to produce new varieties that meet the needs of the sector and producers, taking the above priorities into account. In addition, the development of intensive outdoor and under-film technologies, the screening and evaluation of gene sources, the development of environmentally friendly fertilization and irrigation technologies, the development of harvesting and post-ripening technologies.
A research task is the testing of new species - alternative plants, cultures with low and high heat and light requirements, and related to this, the introduction of good cultivation and processing practices. 

Tomato and onion breeding group
Responsibilities: Breeding to produce varieties, production of modern, competitive hybrids that meet the needs of producers, processors and consumers alike. Cultivation technology tests in industrial tomatoes, with particular regard to water and potassium supply, development of 
new, high-yielding Makó-type hybrids with good seasoning value, higher dry matter content than competitors and better storability, several additional internal content parameters of red onion, such as spiciness or low spiciness selection.

 
Kalocsai Research
Station Research station manager: Tibor Károly Gáll,
agricultural engineer
6300 Kalocsa Obermayer tér 9.
E-mail: gall.tibor.karoly@uni-mate.hu 

Szeged Research
Station Head of Research Station: Tibor Károly Gáll,
agricultural engineer
6721 Szeged Külterület 7.
E-mail: gall.tibor.karoly@uni-mate.hu 
Organizationally, ZKK carries out its activities in two units, the Research Stations in Kalocsa and Szeged, which include cultivation technology research - development, breeding, gene conservation, variety maintenance.