Hungarian agriculture, as we know it, is nearing the end – but researchers already have a plan

Hungarian agriculture as it is known today may disappear — but what comes next? Wheat, maize and sunflower in the Great Plain desert? Photo: Facebook/István NagyWe too have reported in numerous articles on the desertification of the Great Plain. In other words, there may be arable land available, but if accessible water disappears from the soil, crops cannot survive. In areas where cultivation is kept alive only by EU subsidies, arable farming should be abandoned and priority given instead to retaining water.