Polish Minister of Agriculture Henrik Kowalczyk announced that Warsaw will ask the European Commission to return the customs duty on grain from Ukraine, which, instead of just transiting through Poland and being exported to African and Asian countries, largely arrives on the market of the countries- members of the EU.

- We will try to export from Poland the largest amount of grain from Ukraine as soon as possible. The government will ask the EC for special measures to protect the Polish-Ukrainian border. There will also be strict phytosanitary controls. The goods from Ukraine will be released only when it is confirmed that there is no danger, Kovalchik said last night after the negotiations with the farmers, i.e. the second round of the round table about their problems due to the Ukrainian grain, were over.

The Polish Government, by requesting to refund customs duties and pay a deposit equal to the difference between Ukrainian and Polish import prices until the goods are exported, will also create an opportunity to export Ukrainian grain, which is stored in silos in Poland, as humanitarian aid. , and new markets will also be sought.

- Grain transportation will have priority in transport and logistics, just as coal had during the winter, Kovalchik pointed out.

Thanks to those promises, the Polish farmers, led by the Agrounia trade union, abandoned the announced protests and blockades.

In addition to the Polish ones, farmers in the neighboring Czech Republic protested because of the lower purchase prices of grain and because of the "bottleneck" in the Polish ports of the Baltic, where there is not enough capacity for fast transshipment of such quantities of grain in ships, and there is no place for domestic products.

The leader of Agrounia, Michal Kologjejczak, said that if no solution is found, protests will follow in April.

Kowalczyk promised that the government will allocate two billion euros to compensate the losses of Polish farmers in the market for grain and canola.

The Czech Republic supported the Polish initiative to export Ukrainian grain through the so-called solidarity corridors, but to have stronger controls.

The Czech Agrarian Chamber warned of an additional problem that pesticides that are banned in the EU are used in Ukraine.

Ukrainian wheat did not end up in countries dependent on food imports, but on the European market without meeting quality standards for the European market, and Ukrainian farmers were not required to be as environmentally conscious as European farmers. Since agricultural products are not imported into the EU by farmers but by traders, Ukrainian farmers who received only a small part of the price, said the president of the Agrarian Chamber of the Czech Republic, Jan Dolezhal.