As opposed to the socialists (András Liker Áchim [Wikidata]) and the civil radicals, he was a supporter of a moderate agrarian reform which was acceptable to the great landowners and the aristocracy too.

Gyula Rubinek got him to do unification with the United Smallholders and Agrarian Workers Party which led by István Szabó de Sokorópátka.

The landowners tried to sabotage the execution of the new law (1920 Act XXXVI), as a result of that finally 400,000 claimants secured altogether on average a hectare of soil each.

Seeing the failure of the execution he put a modifier proposal on to the law, but because of this at from[clarification needed] the previous conflicts, denouncing got into sharper the assault fire of attacks.

The afforestation of the Great Hungarian Plain, drainage and watering programs began under his ministry, co-operatives and winter agricultural schools came into existence.

Onto the proposal of Tibor Eckhardt, the Prime Minister's press chief Bethlen flipped the corruption cases out on the way of the media directing the suspicion onto Szabó de Nagyatád and onto his environment.

The looking for his truth and fearing for his political career Eskütt rejected the offered secret agreements and emigration opportunity and he required rehabilitation and a mandate instead of these things.