Farmers leader declares Poland has support to ask for more from EU

Agriculture sector organizations in EU member countries have agreed that Poland, as well as other candidate countries, should be subject to the same agriculture policy that apply to other EU members, Wladyslaw Serafin, the head of Polish Farmers' Groups said. Serafin, who at the weekend was the host of a Warsaw meeting of co-operative organizations and professional farmers in present and future EU countries, said that the participants of the conference agreed that the provisions of the Poland-EU agreement had to be rewritten. Under the official agreement, in the first three years Polish farmers would receive 55% of the subsidies EU farmers will get. (www.biznes.onet.pl) J.K.