The European Green Deal's 'Farm to Fork' strategy, which aims for climate neutrality by 2050, is causing concern among farmers, including sugar producers, due to its requirements for significant reductions in plant protection products and fertilizers. Farmers fear these measures could make cultivation unprofitable. Meanwhile, sugar beet yield has reached a six-year high, with sugar producers signing contracts with over 26,000 farmers for the cultivation and delivery of a record 16,966,213 tons of beets.
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The European Green Deal is a set of political initiatives created by the European Commission, which arouses great emotions among farmers. Their goal is to achieve climate neutrality on the Old Continent by 2050. – The Green Deal poses challenges for sugar producers, similar to those for other agricultural industries, i.e. Europe must become climate neutral by 2050. In our case, as well as in the case of other farmers and other food industries, the "Farm to Fork" strategy also comes into play, which assumes that by 2050 we will have to reduce all plant protection products by 50% and fertilizers by 20%. , and at least half of the crops will have to be organic - says Michał Gawryszczak to a reporter from the Newseria Biznes agency. The assumptions of the Green Deal were first presented in the "European Green Deal" communication at the end of 2019. The EC described 10 priorities. They provide for a review of all regulations that will take into account their possible impact on the ...
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