The Management Board of the Lower Silesian Chamber of Agriculture submitted a request to the Council of Ministers to declare a state of natural disaster in the entire voivodeship. According to farmers, there have been so many unfavorable weather phenomena for crops in the region this season that such a decision will be fully justified.
Weather accumulation
The local government emphasizes in its appeal that it knows the dictionary definition of a natural disaster. However, he believes that the effects of this year's accumulation of weather anomalies destroying their fields can easily be considered a disaster. Farmers enumerate spring frosts, torrential rains resulting in flooding of fields and then crops, storms and hailstorms, and finally severe drought and heat.
All these unfavorable phenomena occurred together this year, which, according to farmers, meets the definition of a natural disaster that threatens farmers' property on a large scale. They result in tragically low yields that threaten the financial condition of many farms. In the opinion of the agricultural local government, this disaster requires extraordinary response measures, just like in the event of a natural disaster.
Disastrous harvests
The chamber's estimates show that farmers harvested at most 3-4 tons of wheat per hectare this year, while the reimbursement of costs is only guaranteed by a result of 6t/ha. The situation is identical with winter barley. Spring barley averaged 3.5 t/ha, while 5 t/ha was needed to cover costs. On average, farmers harvested only 2t of rapeseed per hectare. These are disastrously low yields, which – according to farmers – will translate into a market collapse and financial problems for Lower Silesian farms.
Loans won't help
Farmers are facing an economic catastrophe that they have in no way contributed to and could not prevent. DIR is therefore calling for extraordinary measures and assistance from the state, because the loans offered to farmers "do not currently constitute real assistance, but only deepen the financial inefficiency of farms in the long run."
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