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The EU Commissioner for Agriculture has mentioned throughout a go to to Poland that the nation will obtain about PLN 150 billion (EUR 32.6 billion) in EU funding for farms within the years 2021-2027.
Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski additionally hailed the significance of small farms, not simply for Poland however globally.
According to Wojciechowski, small farms with an space of as much as 2 hectares account for 12 p.c of worldwide agricultural land and produce 35 p.c of meals for all the world.
“If small farms had been liquidated, and their whole space had been integrated into giant farms, international meals manufacturing would shrink by these 35 p.c,” Wojciechowski mentioned within the village of Gorno, southern Poland, on Sunday.
Wojciechowski went on to say that, within the years 2021-2027, Poland would obtain round PLN 150 billion (EUR 32.6 billion) for agriculture, together with 10 p.c for small and medium-size farms.
“If we have in mind that there are 14.5 million hectares of agricultural land in Poland, this implies over PLN 10,000 (EUR 2,174) for each statistical hectare of Polish agricultural land and over PLN 120,000 (EUR 26,200) for each statistical Polish farm,” he mentioned.
Having repeated that the liquidation of farms needed to be stopped, Wojciechowski mentioned {that a} whole of 4 million had already been liquidated within the EU. “(*32*) had been 14 million farms, and now there are 10 million,” he mentioned.
He additionally mentioned that Poland had been the one EU nation to have determined to introduce subsidies for fertilisers so as to compensate farmers for sharp value rises.
“Prices of fertilisers have gone up in all 27 EU states. And Poland is the one nation to have provided help to farmers to alleviate the affect of their value development,” he mentioned.
In mid-April, the EC authorized the Polish subsidy programme valued at PLN 3.9 billion (EUR 847 million) for the agricultural sector. The beneficiaries will be capable of obtain grants to the tune of PLN 500 (EUR 108.6) per hectare of arable land, and PLN 250 (EUR 54.3) per hectare of grassland or pasture. The higher restrict of the help claimed will probably be for an space of fifty hectares.
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