farms

Number of farms in Poland drops by 13 pct over decade

GUS reported that the agricultural census showed a decrease in the number of farms with an area of up to 15 ha of agricultural land by approx. 16 percent. In turn, the number of those over 15 ha increased by approx. 6 percent. Tomasz Waszczuk/PAP

Poland has 1.3 million farms, fewer by around 13 percent than in 2010, the Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported on Wednesday.

Poland to channel EUR 55 mln to post-communist degraded areas

Poland will support areas that during communist times depended on collective farms, the so-called PGRs, with a PLN 250-million fund, the prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, announced on Wednesday.

Poland to test minks for coronavirus

Poland will test minks from a farm in a northern province of the country for the presence of coronavirus after the Medical University of Gdańsk found eight infected minks, the Agriculture Ministry announced on Tuesday.

No African Swine Fever in Polish farms since October - minister

Since October 2019 there has not been a single case of African Swine Fever (ASF) in pigs on Polish farms, Agriculture Minister Jan Krzysztof Ardanowski said on Monday, adding, however, that there are ever more wild boar sick with the disease.

It’s moo-der! Duda steps in to save ‘wild cows’ from slaughter

The president took to Twitter to say he hoped a way could be found to save the homeless 185-strong herd which is under threat from locals who say the cows steal food and could be diseased.

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