From agricultural innovation to food safety, environmental protection, nature conservation, and wildlife management were among the topics discussed at the XXII. Wellmann International Scientific Conference.

At the opening ceremony, Dénes MÁTYÁS Ph.D., Deputy Director for Sustainability of the Strategic Management of SZTE, Edit MIKÓ Ph.D., Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture of SZTE, and Professor Szilárd CZÓBEL, secretary of the XXII. Wellmann Scientific Conference, welcomed the attendees.

In the morning session, the audience could listen to 3 plenary lectures, in the afternoon, parallel session, the speakers registered with 44 lectures, and in the poster session, the researchers participated with 54 posters. The participants, who came from twenty countries, represented four continents: Africa, Asia, America and Europe. This year, the conference, under the title “Sustainable Agriculture and Environment in the Changing World”, brought together the most current research from many areas of the world.

“Water retention is a key issue today, and managing higher soil salinity is equally important. For example, one of our speakers from Algeria will talk about how to farm in an area where the soil has become highly saline due to inappropriate agro-technology or climate change. If global warming also brings climate change with warming in our country, then this information could be extremely useful. There are different climate models for the future. There is also a scientifically based idea that there will be a serious break in warming, for example if the North Atlantic Stream stops. If this happens, we will have to prepare for an extremely cold winter and a very hot summer,” said Professor Szilárd CZÓBEL, the secretary of the XXII. Wellmann Scientific Conference.

This year, the organizers announced ten different topics, each of which attracted participants with presentations or posters.

One of the speakers of the plenary session, Professor Eszter TORMA-KOVÁCS, came to Hódmezővásárhely representing the Hungarian University of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

“Agricultural farms are famous for providing crops to society, I am researching what extra they can offer in the future. It depends on how we farm. If we have extensive farming that focuses not only on producing crops, then we can pay attention to ensuring that all this is good for pollinating insects, the number of which is decreasing worldwide. And a mosaic farm can also provide an aesthetic experience, as it is simply nice to look at a diverse agricultural landscape. If we pay attention, for example, to leaving a forest strip near or at the edge of a wheat field, then this can provide habitat for other living creatures as well,” said Eszter TORMA-KOVÁCS, a university professor at the Institute of Wildlife Management and Nature Conservation at MATE.

Abdelkader LARIBI, Ph.D., Deputy Director for Information Systems, Communication and External Relations at the Algerian Agronomic Centre (ENSA), and a member of the ENSA Agricultural Water Management Laboratory and Soil Science Department, presented his research in the fertile Chebli region of Algeria.

Zoltán BOZÓKI Ph.D., professor at the Department of Optics and Quantum Electronics at the University of Szeged, explained in his presentation that agricultural activities are significantly responsible for the emission of anthropogenic greenhouse gases and the associated climate change. About 60% of methane emission from human activities come from agriculture, with the largest share coming from ruminants.

Zoltán BOZÓKI presented the development of measurement methods and the initial results.