Polish farmers plan to block the checkpoint on the border with Ukraine until January

Polish farmers who joined the blockade of carriers plan to continue their protest on the border with Ukraine until January 3. This is reported by the Wiadomosci Rolnicze Polska newspaper.

Initially, they planned to block the border crossing until Saturday, but now they say that the blockade will last 24 hours a day until January 3.

“We sold corn very cheaply, we are losing 2 thousand zlotys per hectare. The costs per hectare are 5.5 thousand zlotys, and we received only 3.3 thousand. Liquidity loans, which supported us to some extent, were withdrawn so that we could continue to function as farmers. Unfortunately, the outgoing government has taken these loans away from us,” said Roman Kondrov, one of the organizers of the protest.

“And the third demand is very simple: that the land tax should not be raised for us. We stand in solidarity with the transportation companies because these industries have suffered the most,” he added.

Kondrov announced that from Monday to January 3, only two trucks a day will be allowed to pass through the border crossing point. He also said that all humanitarian aid would be allowed to enter Ukraine without restrictions.

Tags: Ukraine, Poland, protests, restrictions