Posted on 04/07/2023 9:54:57 AM PDT by McGruff
Farmers in Romania and Bulgaria staged protests Friday to express their anger over the European Union’s response to a glut of agricultural products from Ukraine that they say are flooding local markets and undercutting prices.
Last year, the EU waived customs duties and import quotas on Ukrainian agricultural products as a way of facilitating transport to third-country markets.
However, farmers in Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, and other EU countries have been disproportionately hard-hit by an influx of cheap Ukrainian produce — namely grain — which stays on local markets and undercuts prices.
Polish farmers have also held protests in recent weeks. Poland's agriculture minister, Henryk Kowalczyk, resigned on Wednesday after he became the focus of farmers' anger.
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Don’t eff with farmers!
ukraine has no grain, the media said …..
You're a poet and you didn't even know it.
Embrace the EU. 🙃
just a suviver and a misspeller
The grain in Ukraine stays mainly on the plain.
https://www.reuters.com/article/ukraine-crisis-grain-exports-idUKL1N36912A
53MMT isn’t much to sneeze at. But 83MMT avg is better.
Maybe russia is conducting the harvest ?
Good one.
I thought this grain was destined for starving children in Africa.
But the rain from Spain wouldn’t drain from my brain and the pain wouldn’t wane so I had to call Hal Blaine to drum up a crane.
Who woulda Thunk It?
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