Our story
1789
Animal husbandry at Bábolna begun with the founding of the stud farm.
1948
The Bábolna State Farm (Bábolna SF) was established and so was the industrial-scale agriculture marking off the beginning of poultry breeding.
60's
Dr. Róbert BURGERT was appointed the head of the State Farm (later known as Agro-Industrial Conglomerate) and the basics of industrial poultry breeding were elaborated.
1967
Registration of layer and broiler hybrids originating
from Bábolna.
70's
Beginning of large-scale exports of commercial hybrids and parent stocks.
80's
A huge progress was made regarding the animal health
status of the breeding flocks, the
leucosis-eradication program went successful. Bábolna gained market share and
exported its hybrids to nearly 60 countries worldwide.
90's
Bábolna started a cooperation with Arbor Acres while
finishing broiler breeding.
2000
The genetic research unit of Bábolna continues layer breeding activity independently.
2008-2018
Testing of new hybrids.
2019
ELMA enters the market.