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Inland navigation and cereal export in Hungary

Author:
Szilvássy, Zoltán
CC-BY-NC_SA
173-177
Pages
eco-geography, inland navigation, isolation, weirs
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Összefoglaló


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.