Lithuanian farmers will not join the announced protest of Polish farmers and will not block the largest border crossing between the two countries, Kalwaria-Budzisko, announced the chairman of the Lithuanian Grain Producers Association, Auszrys Macijauskas, on Monday.
The blockade of the Polish-Lithuanian border crossing due to the transit of Ukrainian grain is to start on Friday and last for a week.
– Lithuanian farmers have not blocked, do not block and do not intend to block Ukrainian grain. (…) We see the problem, but we understand the situation of Ukrainian farmers, Macijauskas said in an interview with Lithuanian public radio LRT.
The chairman of the Association of Grain Producers admitted that there is a problem with the control of Ukrainian grain, which should be resolved by the government, but emphasized that “a bigger problem for Lithuanian farmers is Russian grain.”
Blockade of the Polish-Lithuanian border
On March 1, Polish farmers announce a blockade of the Polish-Lithuanian border and they do not rule out that Lithuanian farmers will join the protest. The decision to take action is justified by the so-called the grain carousel system, which consists in Ukrainian grain entering the Lublin or Podkarpackie Voivodeship as a transit through Poland, then heading to Lithuania, and after crossing the border, it is no longer tracked by the Polish services. Then the truck with grain returns to the border and changes the documents, and the cargo becomes EU goods that can freely enter Poland.
