Poland: Too low purchase prices for potatoes

Published 2021년 11월 10일

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Polish agricultural chambers are urging the minister of agriculture to step in over the low prices offered to farmers by potato starch plants. The prices are lower than last year and fail to cover production costs. The plants have unilaterally set the terms of the contract, against the farmers' opposition. The agricultural self-government warns that this approach could lead to the collapse of the starch potato industry, as farmers may refuse to grow the potatoes next year, leaving the industry without raw materials. This could ultimately result in a market collapse for all cells that use starch for further production.

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Agricultural chambers are asking the minister of agriculture to intervene in the case of very low prices offered to farmers by plants producing potato starch. - Buying-in prices for starch potatoes, imposed by starch-producing plants, are lower this year than in 2020 and do not even compensate for production costs. The terms of the contract were imposed unilaterally by the plants, despite the farmers' opposition, informs Wiktor Szmulewicz, president of the National Council of Agricultural Chambers According to the agricultural self-government, such a policy of starch producers may turn out to be very short-sighted and, consequently, lead to the complete bankruptcy of the starch potato industry, ...

Source: Wrp