WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s federalgovernment stated Saturday that it has chose to briefly restrict grain and other food imports from Ukraine as it looksfor to relieve the increasing anger of Polish farmers, who state they are losing substantial quantities of cash to a excess of Ukrainian grain on the market.
Ruling celebration leader Jarosław Kaczyński stated at a celebration convention in eastern Poland that the Polish countryside is dealingwith a “moment of crisis,” and that while Poland supports Ukraine, it was required to act to secure its farmers.
“Today, the federalgovernment has chose on a guideline that restricts the importation of grain, however likewise lots of other types of food, to Poland,” Kaczyński stated.
The federalgovernment revealed that the restriction on imports would last till June30 The policy likewise consistsof a restriction on imports of sugar, eggs, meat, milk and other dairy items and fruits and veggies.
Farmers in surrounding nations have likewise grumbled about Ukrainian grain flooding their nations and producing a excess that has triggered costs to fall — and triggering them to take high losses.
“The increasing imports of farming items from Ukraine cause major disruptions in the markets of our nations, terrific damage to manufacturers and social discontent,” the Polish farming minister, Robert Telus, informed his equivalents from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia and Hungary this week. All are