Farmers are demanding that the government introduce customs duties on Ukrainian grain, unblock channels for grain imports from Ukraine, and provide intervention in the purchase of grain, PSL politicians told a press conference on Tuesday. From this text you will learn:

> What farmers expect from the Polish government

> About the government’s plans for grain import policy from Ukraine

PSL Deputy Speaker of the Sejm Piotr Zgorzelski, PSL MEP Jaroslaw Kalinowski and several farmers from the Mazowieckie Voivodeship addressed a press conference at the Sejm on Tuesday.

As Zgorzelski said, “a wave of agricultural protests is spreading across the country, meanwhile the Minister of Agriculture and his colleagues have hidden their heads in the sand.”

PSL has been saying for many months that it is necessary, firstly, to stop importing grain from Ukraine, secondly, to introduce tariffs immediately, and thirdly, to bring about intervention buying. These three things, Minister Kowalczyk, should have been done, and not say that you will take action in two months, because these two months are simply an invitation to speculators.” Zgorzelski said. “The Polish government, which says it is the representative of the Polish countryside, cannot act like this,” he added.

“Today, in the Polish countryside, the doctrine of (Law and Justice Chairman Jaroslaw) Kaczynski, which was revealed by (former Agriculture Minister) Jan Krzysztof Ardanowski, is being implemented. It is enough to give the Polish peasant a few pennies and he will still vote for Law and Justice. So that you don’t sometimes miscalculate, because today your agrarian policy is equating the farmer with the land,” assessed Zgorzelski.

He informed that the farmers from the Mazowieckie Voivodeship, who were present at the conference, “join the motion to dismiss Minister (of Agriculture Henryk) Kowalczyk,” which was submitted by the PSL. “The minister has capitulated and is unable to solve any problem,” he added. – Zgorzelski pointed out.

One of the farmers present at the conference, Bogdan Matczak, announced that if nothing changes, farmers will have to dispose of Polish grain.

 

Source: Farmer.pl