Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki instructed Minister of Agriculture and Food Heinrich Kowalczyk to limit the flow of Ukrainian grain into the country.
Earlier, several Polish organizations uniting agrarians, in particular Agrounia, protested against the fact that Ukrainian grain comes to Poland for export abroad, but settles in this republic, and pointed to the low quality of this grain.
Official figures indicate that the volume of Ukrainian grain that entered Poland last year amounted to two million tons.
Morawiecki said today at a press conference in Warsaw: “I instructed the Minister of Agriculture to develop and formulate appropriate principles as soon as possible, which would allow us not only to get rid of part of the grain accumulated in Poland, but also to sell part of this grain to North Africa and to The Middle East – where “these grains were supposed to go. Rules should also be introduced to limit the flow of Ukrainian grain to Poland, because today these grains destabilize the market in our country. We understand this very well, so the Minister of Agriculture has been instructed to deal with this.”
The Prime Minister of Poland confirmed that his country had sent a special message to the European Commission.
He said: “In this letter, we have listed various ways to restrict the import of this grain. Ukrainian grain must pass through Poland and cannot cause market disruptions.”
Source: News