Traffic Jam

Here and there around Poland farmers are blocking roads in a protest over the loss of their crops caused by an over population of wild boar, ban on slaughter of animals for Kosher rituals and the Russian embargo on fruit and vegetables.

Traffic jam

Farming organisations are demanding compensation from the government.

Poland’s Agriculture Minister, Marek Sawicki, has criticised the blocking of roads and says the All-Poland Alliance of Trade Unions (OPZZ) had already agreed to take part in negotiations with the government.

But the union says they want to meet directly with the prime minister, since little progress is being made with the agriculture minister. The unions also complain that the government was able to find money for a loan to Ukraine, but not for its own farmers.