Poland has been helping Ukraine export its grain after Russia cut off Ukraine’s usual export routes through its Black Sea ports, Henryk Kowalczyk, Poland's agriculture minister, has said.
Mateusz Morawiecki, the prime minister, has stressed the importance of food security in the context of the war in Ukraine.
The director-general of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has said that Poland has become one of the most important agricultural producers.
With a share of 17 percent in total production, Poland is the third-largest producer of eggs in the European Union, a deputy head of the National Support Centre for Agriculture (KOWR) has said.
Poland's food supply is safe despite the Russia-Ukraine war because Poland, as part of Europe, produces more than it needs, the Polish agriculture minister said on Thursday.
The Polish prime minister in the long-expected government reshuffle has named new agriculture, climate and development and technology ministers, and reinstated the Ministry of Sports and Tourism.
Poland's farms are set to receive a total of EUR 34.5 billion under the EU's common agricultural and cohesion policy, and the National Recovery Plan, the EU Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski has said.
Exports of Polish agricultural and food products rose by 5.3 percent year on year in H1 2021, according to the Agriculture Ministry.
The president of the Central Statistical Office (GUS), who presented the results of the 2020 agricultural census on Wednesday, said that over the last ten years, 192,000 farms in Poland have ceased operating.
Poland is the leader among EU countries and world number-five raspberry producer, a state-owned agricultural agency has announced.
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