{"id":19206,"date":"2023-04-21T12:35:13","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T12:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/poland-to-give-farmers\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T12:40:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T12:40:01","slug":"poland-to-give-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/poland-to-give-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland to give farmers $2.4 billion in aid as PM slams EU response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WARSAW (Reuters) &#8211;     European Union measures to help farmers affected by a glut of Ukrainian food imports are too little too late, the Polish prime minister said on Friday, after the government approved 10 billion zlotys ($2.4 billion) in aid for Polish agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>Central European countries are trying to thrash out a deal with Brussels on EU-wide measures to help agriculture after some of them unilaterally introduced import bans on Ukrainian food products.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What the EU is offering us is offered with a delay, it is too little, a drop in the ocean of needs,&#8221; Mateusz Morawiecki told a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Several central European countries became transit routes for Ukrainian grain that could not be exported through the country&#8217;s Black Sea ports because of Russia&#8217;s invasion in February 2022. <\/p>\n<p>Bottlenecks then trapped millions of tons of grains in countries bordering Ukraine, forcing local farmers to compete with an influx of cheap Ukrainian imports.<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission has offered 100 million euros of aid for central European farmers in addition to an earlier 56-million-euro package. <\/p>\n<p>It has also said it will take emergency &#8220;preventive measures&#8221; for wheat, maize, sunflower seeds and rape seed, but the central European states want this list to be widened to include products including honey and some meats.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the Polish government approved measures including increasing the amount of excise duty farmers can have refunded on diesel to 1.46 zlotys from 1.20 zlotys.<\/p>\n<p>Morawiecki said the government would also ask the European Commission to give it permission to raise the amount that can be refunded to 2 zlotys. It will also pay subsidies to ensure farmers get a minimum price of 1,400 zlotys per ton of wheat.<\/p>\n<p>($1 = 4.2014 zlotys)<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Alan Charlish and Pawel Florkiewicz, Editing by William Maclean)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/poland-to-give-farmers\/file-photo-u-s-vice-president-harris-meets-with-polish-prime-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3K0G9-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3K0G9-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WARSAW (Reuters) &#8211; European Union measures to help farmers affected by a glut of Ukrainian food imports are too little too late, the Polish prime minister said on Friday, after the government approved 10 billion zlotys ($2.4 billion) in aid for Polish agriculture. 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