Poland: Catch crops - what to do if we do not sow them by August 20?

Poland

Published Aug 24, 2021

Tridge summary

The Board of the National Council of Agricultural Chambers asked the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development to extend the deadline for sowing stubble catch crops. The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development responded to a request to extend the deadline for sowing stubble catch crops to September 4, 2021, and to keep them in the field for 8 weeks. What if catch crops are not sown by August 20?

Original content

Stubble catch crops are one of the options for meeting the requirement of maintaining the ecological focus area (EFA1) as part of greening. According to the regulation of the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of 11 March 2015 on areas recognized as ecological focus areas and the conditions for joint implementation of the practice of maintaining these areas, ecological focus areas (EFA) are, among others, catch crops as areas formed by sowing a mixture consisting of at least two plant species from the following groups of crops: cereals, oilseeds, forage, small-seed beans, broad beans, honey-bearing crops - with the exception of a mixture composed only of cereal species. At the same time, as part of the greening, the regulations do not specify the percentage of the above-mentioned blends. Moreover, these mixtures are not kept as main crop crops in the year following that of sowing. The mixture should be sown from July 1 to August 20 and maintained at least until October ...

Source: SwiatRolnika