Farmers are sounding the alarm about exaggerated beet contaminations. "Significant deductions when settling deliveries"

The Management Board of the National Council of Agricultural Chambers (KRIR) has intervened regarding the correctness of the execution of beet contamination tests during the acceptance process by processing plants. There have been voices from farmers for some time now about potentially incorrect, inflated contamination levels of sugar beets received by individual sugar corporations, which of course ultimately hits the planters in the pocket. Such signals recently came from farmers in the Lublin region and such signals have also recently reached KRIR from farmers who have contacted it. "Planters are alarming that during the acceptance of beets at sugar mills, contamination levels of up to 18 percent are being charged, which is in stark contradiction with the results estimated on the farms. As farmers indicate, the modern combine harvesters and cleaning machines currently used should guarantee maintaining the contamination level at 5-6 percent, in accordance with their technical ...