Farmers are increasingly frustrated with the situation resulting from the lack of direct payments for 2023. As they argue, many farms have very serious financial problems because of this.
Turkish County, Sierpc County, Zgierz County, Sokółka County, Oświęcim County, Grójec County, Kozienice County, Krotoszyn, Środa Wlkp., Kluczbork, Olsztyn, Kościel County County, Koszalin County, Brzozowski County, Lublin County, Puławy, Gniezno County, Inowrocław County, Kalisz County, Sieradz County, Szamotuły County Moński, Koło, Piski, Goworowo Mazowiecki, Słupiec and Zamość counties – this is the list presented by farmers from the Young Farmers' Movement on social media. As they say, this is the Polish government's list of shame. It covers areas where farmers still have not received direct payments for 2023.
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Farmers still do not receive direct payments for 2023.
There are videos on social media in which farmers ask the ministry directly for intervention.
@ksiegowa_rolnika about direct payments for 2023! 🌾📅 We receive a lot of information that ARiMR has not yet paid direct payments to farmers for 2023 in many districts! ‼️ It's a scandal! ‼️ ARiMR sends letters to farmers that money payments will be postponed for the next months… Many farmers are on the verge of bankruptcy precisely because of ARiMR's delay! ‼️ This year is very difficult – weather anomalies, low yields and even lower purchase prices are driving farmers to the brink of the abyss, and in many cases subsidies are the last resort. As you can see, the Ministry of Agriculture doesn't care. Ministers Siekierski, Kołodziejczak and Krajewski prefer to lie in the media about how good it is in agriculture and that they have put out the protests!! Nothing could be further from the truth. Farmers are becoming more and more frustrated! ‼️ We are finishing the harvest season, we have autumn sowing, purchases of seed materials, fertilizers and plant protection products, but for what? Since farmers are not receiving the money they deserve. Gentlemen ministers! It's time to finally get down to work, instead of lying and showing off in front of the cameras! ‼️ Many farms are facing bankruptcy. Unless that's your goal? 🤔🌾👨🌾 #dc #Dc #rolnictwotomorejthanpassion🚜 @wszyscy @GR Ojdana @Damian.Murawiec RMF @PIOTR KISIEL RMF @Rolnik for every occasion @Paulina Muchowska @Guzik Rolnik @BARDOWSCY @Doris @Michał "Niepro" Nowacki @Patrycja Bajus @Patryk Kieloch @Sierota Rolnik @Szymon Statkiewicz
We are finishing the harvest, and therefore new sowings await us. New sowings involve costs, seed material, fuel purchases, fertilizer purchases, and spraying purchases. And farmers have to pay for all this from their own money, because the money they are entitled to has still not been transferred to their accounts – appeals Agata Stachowiak, a farmer from the Young Farmers Movement. – I wonder if any of the ministers is even aware of how dangerous the suspension of direct payments is for the financial liquidity of a farm?
As Agata Stachowiak emphasizes, due to lack of payments, many farms are at risk of bankruptcy.
This list, this blacklist of counties, indicates that this is probably what you mean. To destroy Polish agriculture – he says and points to further shortcomings in the system. – Drought? Unpaid. Cereal subsidies? Unpaid. Direct payments? Unpaid. I `m asking? What are you even doing there? I understand that there are staff shortages, I understand that there is an ICT system, because you use this ICT system in every possible letter. Farmers receive five different extensions of deadlines due to the fault of the IT system. I wonder if you couldn't have predicted this in advance? Didn't you know that a new agricultural perspective is coming, you will want to change the ICT system, you will lack staff and apparently you have poor IT specialists? – he asks.
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Farmers demand immediate action and holding those responsible accountable
Farmers are calling for action to speed up payments, but they also expect consequences to be brought against those responsible. They also emphasize that the situation is not the fault of the agency's employees, but primarily of the decision-makers.
The point is not to attack employees of district agencies, because I believe that they are people with a calling, people who are often also farmers and people who know our farms best and best. But unfortunately, these people have not been equipped with the tools that allow them to process applications when they should be processed. This is your responsibility! I hope that the consequences for this list will be borne by the top, not the rank and file employee, Stachowiak appeals.
We asked the Agency for Restructuring and Modernization of Agriculture what the situation is. By the time this text was published, we had not received a response. However, a message appeared on the agency's website informing that by August 5, 2024, subsidies under last year's campaign had been distributed to over 1.232 million farmers. ARiMR paid nearly PLN 20 billion in direct and area payments for 2023.
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There are no takers for a bonus for a young farmer. The application period ends soon
According to the Agency, in the 2023 campaign, applications for direct payments were submitted by 1.242 million farmers, and the financial envelope amounted to PLN 16.969 billion. By August 5, 2024, heads of district offices issued 1.241 million decisions on granting subsidies, and nearly PLN 20 billion was transferred to farmers' accounts. Over 1.5 thousand remain to be resolved. make it happen:
- in 848 cases, the application processing process was suspended due to the farmer's death and waiting for the heirs' documents;
- As for 722 farmers, explanatory proceedings are ongoing due to, among others, for: raising objections to the on-site inspection report, reporting the lack of legal title to the areas declared in the application, creating artificial conditions for granting payments.
Decisions are decisions, and there were no payouts.
ARiMR employees involved in the process of handling often very complicated cases make every effort to ensure that documents are verified on an ongoing basis and that the expected financial support reaches farmers as soon as possible – informs ARiMR.
