
“KOWR acts evidently against individual farmers, supporting this by foreign conglomerates” – argues Poland Solidarity RI, accusing KOVR of “deliberate” sluggishness in distribution among farmers of land from leases given by Top Farms Głubczyce and other major leasers in all western Poland. Farmers have already had enough of waiting, which is why they intervened in this issue with minister of agriculture Czeslaw Siekierski and director general of KOWR. They threatened blockades of roads if tenders for land finally do not move.
Grounds under Top Farms for over 1.5 years have been lying sugar and overgrown with weeds, then farmers wait for land – said Tomasz Ognisty, an activist of Poland “Solidarity” RI at the convened 23 January br. in the house of the Sejm press conference. We see, that the National Agriculture Support Center is very weak
in this issue, that is why we intervened with the minister of agriculture and with the director general of KOWR.
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Minister nas lied, we demand his dymission! Farmers have enough of the mess with leases of KOVR
Problems from Gdansk to Gliwice
According farmers from Poland Solidarity RI tenders for land after companies are intentionally delayed and this problem affects all western Poland -. from Gdansk to Gliwice.
-KOWR acts very, very slowly, and in the Glubczycki district stands in the place or is receding. For this there is no our consent – stated Fire.
The trade unionist stated, that the previous interpretations of KOVR – that the land to distribute is abundant, and officials few – after 1.5 years have already lost sense, the more that “KOWR has received support if it comes to staff”.
-The current actions of KOVR in Opole are unlawful. We demand the immediate resolution of the pending tenders and the
progress to the next stage. Because as we know for distribution to farmers there are another 3,000 hectares andis that
in our view special delayed – said at the conference in the Sejm Chairman of NSZZ RI Solidarity of
Poland.
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“Today we appeal”
Farmers from Poland have threatened together, that if their intervention with the minister and the head of KOVR has no effect, they will have to use stronger means to pressure the authorities.
We today still to the minister we appeal and demand talk, but we will protest in moments, we will start blocking roads, because we don’t agree with such policy of KOVR – said the head of Poland Solidarity.
Top Farms Glubczyce has not made statutory exemptions of 30% land from leases, as a result of which the company lost the right to renew the leases, which on ub.yr. expired. In result into the State Treasury resources, 10 thousand hectares returned. Restructuring and distribution of those lands were to be done in three stages. In the first stage to farmers took 566 ha from Top
Farms and this is the only completed process. In the second stage KOVR was to distribute about 1900
ha, but farmers can not wait for the resolution of tenders. In the third stage to distribute in tenders there were
to be over 2900 ha. But this stage will not start, until KOVR finishes the proceedings in the II stage. Because both the provision, that one farmer may get only one real estate from II and III stage.
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of land from leases: “Someone is trying to leave land in the hands of renters”
Priorities in the Poland Presidency
The President of Poland Agricultural Solidarity has also called the minister of agriculture to suspend work on legislation on agricultural
rents and on active farmers, because for this time there are the issues important for Poland agriculture, such
as pipes, Green Land, the agreement with Mercosur, whether import from Ukraine and its accession to the
EU. On this issue the government should focus on the Polish presidency of the EU Council.
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