Poland, the largest agricultural country in central and Eastern Europe, is plagued by food surplus

Introduction: as the largest agricultural country in central and Eastern Europe, Poland's grain output last year reached 27 million tons, and imported 2.5 million tons of grain from abroad According to Poland's richest per capita grain consumption in recent two years, the grain demand is only between 4.5 million tons and 5 million tons Supply is bigger than demand, and the problem of food surplus perplexes the Polish government The grain surplus in Poland is closely related to the government's agricultural policy and the domestic economic situation Poland has implemented a set of price intervention mechanism for major agricultural products Once the market price of grain is lower than the intervention price, the government will use the intervention price to purchase The intervention price in Poland is much higher than that in the surrounding markets For example, the government's purchase price is 480 zlotys per ton (about 4 zlotys per dollar), while the price of wheat in the neighboring grain exchanges such as France, Hungary and Russia is only between 343 and 375 zlotys Through the intervention mechanism of the government, farmers sell at least 120 zlos of direct subsidy for a ton of wheat It can be said that one of the reasons for the grain surplus is that the excessive intervention price leads to the blind production Poland's recent economic downturn is another reason for its food glut The sales and consumption of agricultural products in Poland mainly depend on the domestic market, while the main class determining the consumption of agricultural products is the low-income class, whose income is an important factor affecting the increase or decrease of food consumption According to the survey, with the economic downturn, low-income groups have restricted food consumption in recent years The government of Poland recently held a meeting and decided to tackle the problem of food surplus as a very urgent issue First, the Polish government has focused on reducing or suspending imports According to the principle that both sides should completely liberalize the agricultural product market after Poland's accession to the EU, Poland is now increasing the quota of duty-free imported grain from the EU year by year In order to safeguard the interests of the country's agriculture, Polish Prime Minister miler decided to temporarily postpone tax-free imports for the next year However, this decision was immediately strongly opposed by the EU Both the EU member in charge of enlargement and Franz Fischler in charge of agriculture stressed that restricting imports from the EU could not solve the problem of food surplus in Poland, and hoped that the Polish government could change this decision There are also concerns in Poland that the decision of the government may complicate the negotiations at the last moment of Poland's accession to the EU and negotiations with the EU, including on agriculture In order to solve the problem of grain surplus, the Polish government also considered to reduce the price of wheat intervention, promote the rational production of farmers, and put the grain market on a normal track However, reducing the intervention price will inevitably reduce farmers' income, which is strongly opposed by farmers Polish farmers have been skeptical of the government's agricultural policy, arguing that the government has not fully considered their interests in negotiations with the EU If the government wants to remain politically stable, it must not offend the peasants Therefore, kalinovsky, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of agriculture of Poland, even announced recently that the government will increase its intervention in the price of agricultural products this year and resolutely safeguard the interests of farmers It seems that both at home and abroad, the Polish government is facing a dilemma on the issue of food (author:) share to feed Weibo share to: