GAK was established in 1995 by the Gödöllő University of Agriculture – today St. Stephen University (largest agricultural university in Hungary) as well as by the major agricultural production companies in Hungary.
GAK’s main task is the development of relationship between national and international agro-food industry production, user and trading units as follows:
• providing agricultural extension services, professional and scientific advises
• establishing and operating agro-information networks and databases
• organising national and international exhibitions, fairs, shows, presentations, conferences
• providing intermediate and advanced level postgraduate training programmes
• managing innovation in the agro-food industry (research-development-demonstration- commercialisation)