The chairman of the Polish Law and Justice party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, called the dispute over grain imports an “unpleasant event” that “does not change anything in our attitude towards the war in Ukraine.”
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We helped Ukraine from the very beginning. In terms of military assistance and arms supplies, we were ahead of everyone,” Kaczynski noted during a pre-election event in Wroclaw, Onet reports.
But he added that there was no clause in the unspoken agreement between Poles and Ukrainians that we would abolish Polish agriculture.
Polish agriculture will have to be protected. Considering the size of the land, the climate in Ukraine, he will have no chance to compete. It would essentially have to disappear,” the politician said, justifying restrictions on Ukrainian imports.
Ukraine announced today that in the event of a ban on the export of Ukrainian grain, farmers could lose approximately 600 million euros by the end of the year.
During the embargo on the import of Ukrainian grain to Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Romania, Ukraine lost about 170 million euros monthly. If the bans continue, then by the end of the year the losses could amount to about 600 million euros, said Denis Marchuk, deputy chairman of the All-Ukrainian Agrarian Council, on September 20.
He explained that for Ukraine, a state that is at war and has been selling its products significantly below market prices for almost a year and a half, the possibility of losing the prospect of exports is very problematic.
In conditions of war and support for the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the economy, these are very large funds that we as a state are counting on,” Marchuk explained.
Source: Racurs
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