Poland: restructuring begins

THE task of restructuring nearly two million farms in Poland, to make them competitive in the EU-25, has got off to a good start.

Polish farmers have rushed to the government’s Agency for Restructuring and Modernisation of Agriculture (ARiMR) to obtain pensions financed by the EU.

“During the first two days of the programme, 3,945 farmers submitted their applications and around 50,000 took the forms to fill out,” revealed ARiMR spokesperson Iwona Musial. Qualifying conditions for the structural pension include giving up one’s land and being more than 55 years old.