Poland decided to temporarily stop importing grain from Ukraine

Polish Agriculture Minister Robert Telus announced on Friday that the import of Ukrainian grain to Poland would be temporarily suspended to alleviate the impact on prices, while still allowing transit.

Telus, who took office on Thursday after his predecessor resigned amid farmers’ protests, stated that transit would be closely monitored to ensure that Ukrainian grain did not remain in Poland.

The influx of Ukrainian grains into Central European countries at cheaper prices, leading to logistical problems and local farmers’ sales and prices affected, has become a political problem for Poland’s ruling nationalists Law and Justice (PiS) in an election year.

Last month, the prime ministers of five states, including Poland, wrote to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, urging action on Ukrainian agricultural imports.