On April 1, 2022, a delegation from the Lublin Chamber of Agriculture, led by its president Gustaf Jedrejek, was in Lviv Oblast with the support of the Lviv Oblast Military Administration and the initiative of the Regional Council of Agrarian Chambers of the Republic of Poland. The delegation included the editor-in-chief of Top agrar POLSKA, a well-known publication of agrarians in the EU, Karol Buyocek, who noted how his publication was included in the organization of humanitarian aid. Ukrainians.
During the meeting, we discussed the future of Ukrainian-Polish agriculture in the context of the key changes taking place during the war unleashed by Russia in Ukraine. Today, the implementation of a new strategic policy in agriculture is needed, because the logistics chains of sea transportation of grain and oil crops have been destroyed. The challenges that await Europe and the world in the context of food security are of great concern to all of us. Farmers want to know what awaits them in the coming years and how they will have to adapt to new requirements, which should be new preferences or restrictions (growing onions, garlic, tomatoes, etc.) Tetyana Hetman, director of the Department of Agro-Industrial Development of the Lviv Regional State Military Administration, emphasized this in her speech.
The participants of our meeting were the heads of territorial communities Oleg Volskyi, the mayor of Zhovkva, Mykhailo Tsihulyak – the mayor of Trostyanets, Yuriy Yankiv – the first deputy mayor of Morshynsk, all of them have accepted a large number of IDPs and in these difficult conditions provide them with proper accommodation and food, but they need help, including humanitarian aid.
Andrii Pryshchepa, head of the Chernihiv Agrarian Chamber, Oleksiy Sereda – head of the Assembly of Agrarian Chambers of Ukraine, head of the Poltava Agrarian Chamber and Pavlo Chemerys – head of an agricultural enterprise from the Lebedyn district of Sumy Oblast, came to the meeting from the hot spots of our country. Our guests told about the horrors of this war, the killing of civilians, entire farming families, the destruction of farm and livestock buildings along with workers and animals, damage and mining of winter grain and oil crops, looting of seed stocks in farms, and agricultural machinery.
The President of the Lviv Agrarian Chamber, Pavlo Muzyka, thanked our Polish colleagues for the humanitarian aid, which they provide for the third time through our Chamber, thanks to the members of the LAP board of its administration, all of which is sent on time to those who need it most (territorial communities for IDPs, medical institutions, other regions of Ukraine). Special thanks to Mariusz Krul, the head of the Zamoyski branch of the Lublin Chamber of Farmers, the director of the Zamoyski branch of the Lublin Chamber of Farmers, Piotr Kuranz – volunteers Elżbieta Krul, and Adam Boyarski – a member of the Board of the Lublin Chamber of Farmers of the Republic of Poland.
On April 5th, our Chamber accepts humanitarian aid of seeds of elite varieties of potatoes from the Government of France, which will be divided among our farms.
Edited by Ihor VUYTSIK – Chairman of the Board of the Lviv Agrarian Chamber.