Polish Deputy Minister of Agriculture Janusz Kowalski said that the country will seek the refund of customs duties on Ukrainian corn and some other agricultural products by the European Union and will raise the issue at the EU Council of Ministers meeting on January 30. for agriculture. It has been reported DEA News.
“I will persuade the entire Polish government. <…> “To protect the interests of Polish farmers and to demand compensation from the EU for farmers who suffer losses, for example, due to financing of warehouse infrastructure or geopolitical reasons,” he said.
According to the deputy minister, the country’s Ministry of Agriculture will try to remove some products from the liberalization regime in order to “protect” the Polish poultry, apple and juice processing industries.
Henryk Kowalczyk, former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of Poland declarationThat Poland exported more than 2 million tons of grain from Ukraine until the end of September 2022.