The Polish Ministry of Agriculture must now appeal to the Council of Ministers with a request to suspend the transit of agricultural products.
Polish authorities signed an agreement with Polish farmers on subsidies per ton of grain and the temporary closure of the border with Ukraine for the transit of some agricultural products. Polish Radio reported it.
The document was signed by representatives of protesting farmers and the Minister of Agriculture Czeslaw Sekierski and the Secretary of State of the Ministry Michal Kolodziejczak.
The agreement includes maintaining the current embargo on agricultural products from Ukraine, which has been in effect since mid-September 2023. The embargo applies to wheat, corn, wheat flour, rapeseed and sunflower.
The Minister of Agriculture must apply to the Council of Ministers with a request to suspend the transit of these products on the territory of Poland from April 1, 2024.
Farmers’ representatives at the agreement expressed their government’s support for changes to the Green Deal. We are mainly talking about replacing the mandatory migration with a voluntary eco-scheme and simplifying other rules for farmers.
We remind you that on March 15, Polish farmers also blocked the Hizne checkpoint on the border with Slovakia. According to farmers, agricultural products from Ukraine and Russia enter Poland along these roads.
Source: korrespondent
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