PIR: criterion of 70 percent losses unfair. Necessary change in aid for orchard owners.

The Podlasie Agricultural Chamber (PIR) is demanding urgent intervention regarding the principles of providing aid to orchardists - producers of fruit trees and bushes - in connection with frost damage. PIR points to a draft regulation concerning aid for orchardists, which states that support should cover farms that experienced losses exceeding 70 percent of production in the period from April 1 to May 31, 2025. In its opinion, such a formulated criterion is in practice disproportionate, unfair, and grossly detrimental to fruit producers. "In other agricultural sectors, aid is already granted at a loss level of 30 percent, which raises the question: in what way are orchardists worse off or in what way are other producers better off that they are subject to such different, significantly more stringent criteria?" reads the document from the Podlasie agricultural self-government. According to the Chamber, the real financial consequences of damage in horticulture are significantly ...