Vision and reality remains poles apart
CO-OPERATIVE is a bad word in Poland. In the past it meant a massive, state-run farm.
But Jan Mitura needs help to buy cool rooms for the hundreds of tonnes of strawberries he grows every year on his 150 acres.
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