Inland navigation and cereal export in Hungary

Szilvássy, Zoltán

Keywords: eco-geography, isolation, inland navigation, weirs

Over the one and a half centuries since agriculture shifted from self-sufficiency to producing marketable goods, it has been proven that the surplus produce – due to the country’s geographical isolation – cannot compete against the cereal of countries with access to seas and oceans. We still have not been able to create a cheap water route to a seaport, and Hungarian cereals can still only be sold below world market prices. To make rivers navigable irrespective of the changes to their water levels, weirs are needed.

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