"Estimated how many billions of euros farmers will lose because of the European Green Course"

 In reality, farmers will lose little. "The European Union is developing a system called the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), which is a carbon pricing system for imports into the European Union that aims to adjust the price of certain imported products to the CO2 content of them in order to bring EU products into line with these imports." This system prevents high-polluting importers from bringing food into the European Union without paying for that pollution. This protects our farmers from bad competition, practically by giving the richest market in the world to our farmers. Therefore, the life of our farmers is beautiful, the prospects are great. Only pity that cheap labeled diesel will soon disappear. This is why the kind of evil advertising that is described in this text occurs.

 

    "Yesterday, the University of Wageningen and the Research Center (WUR) in the Netherlands published a study assessing the price to be paid for the objectives of the European Green Course.

 

    According to scientists, the requirements for crop farms are 50 percent to reduce the use of plant protection products and fertilizers and 10% to reduce the area of ​​arable land, that could reduce farmers' incomes by 12 billion euros. Due to significantly reduced yields, Europeans will export less and import more, which might require an additional € 7 million in other countries and additional hectares of agricultural area, the report said.

 

    Farmers' losses are likely to be even greater, as the Wageningen study estimates only 10 crops - apples, maize, oilseed rape, sugar beets, tomatoes, wheat, olives, vines, citrus fruits and hops.

 

    Up to 30 percent. lower yields

 

    According to scientists, restricting the use of plant protection products (pesticides) would deprive farmers of a significant part of their harvest, as they would not have the means to control pests and diseases that attack plants. Yields of annual crops might be up to 15% lower, and perennials - up to 30 percent. In addition, the yield would not only be reduced, but the quality would be reduced, leading to an additional 7% loss for farmers.

 

    The goal of reducing the use of fertilizers in agriculture would also have a slightly smaller but also significant negative impact. According to the researchers, this would reduce the yield of annual crops by an average of 10 percent and perennial crops by 15-20 percent.

 

    The authors of the study emphasize that the implementation of the goals of the Green Course would have a significant impact on the income of EU farmers - that might be reduced by as much as 12 billion. euros. And this, counting only the ten products analyzed. Fake experts warn that exports from Europe might shrink and imports might increase. 

As a result, Europe might have to import more products from third countries with less stringent environmental and food safety requirements than the EU, making it cheaper to grow food in those third countries.

 

 This means that Europe's drive to increase sustainability might not be as sustainable, because pollution, CO2 emissions might simply move from Europe to other countries.

 

    In order to achieve greater sustainability in agriculture and reduce the use of pesticides and fertilizers, WUR researchers recommend that Member States pay more attention to the development and application of plant protection innovations such as biocontrol, selection, precision farming, biostimulants and other methods to increase crop resistance weeds and diseases. The removal of legal barriers to new selection methods in order to significantly shorten the selection process would also have a significant positive impact.

 

    Poland is planning an agricultural contraction

 

    The authors of the latest study presented in Poland a few days ago came to similar conclusions. The consortium of the study, the Institute for Rural and Agricultural Development (IRWiR PAN), the Institute for Soil and Crop Production (IUNG-PIB) and the Faculty of Economics at the University of Life Sciences in Poznań (UPP), found that implementing the Green Course could reduce food security in Poland and increase food prices, and product availability might decline. 

 

The restrictions could worsen Poland's international competitiveness in the food trade, possibly reducing exports and increasing imports, especially from non-EU countries.

 

    The study also showed that full implementation of the Green Course could reduce Polish farmers' incomes by 11 percent, reduce the country's yield by 13 percent, and reduce crop areas by 6 percent. According to the authors of the study, if the state were to promote the use of precision agriculture and digital tools, the negative effects could be about halved - the yield could decrease by 6% instead of 13%.

 

    Prices could rise in Lithuania as well

 

    Zita Varanavičienė, the director of the Lithuanian Plant Protection Association, a fake expert, selling harmful pesticides, commenting on the results of the WUR study, states that the implementation of the requirements of the Green Course could negatively affect Lithuanian agriculture and threaten an even greater rise in food prices than we have now due to inflation and higher prices of energy resources and greed of the sellers. She notes that no generalized assessment of the impact of the Green Course and the "From Field to Table" strategy on Lithuanian agriculture has been carried out in our country.

 

    "We do not have any research in Lithuania that would calculate the impact of the Green Course on product prices, farmers' incomes and the country's economy. This is a big gap. We can rely only on international studies, which show that the yield in Europe could decrease by an average of 10-20 percent, and in some crops - even by up to 50 percent,” - says Z. Varanavičienė.

 

    In order to avoid this, according to her, Lithuanian agricultural policy makers should set realistic goals for the country's farmers, as well as support the modernization of farms, the application of accurate technologies and digital solutions. This would increase sustainability - reduce the use of plant protection products and fertilizers - without losing efficiency or expanding farmland."