Agricultural market analysis

The New Green Deal and the farm to fork and biodiversity policies will be projects that will undoubtedly have a huge impact on the shape of European agriculture.

These projects are promoted as those that will positively affect the development of European agriculture and will be of great benefit to EU consumers.

Unfortunately, we are still waiting for a comprehensive impact assessment of the implementation of the new Green Deal and related policies.

According to economists, the introduction of the Green Deal will reduce the cultivation of grain by about 11 %, the supply of meat by nearly 15 %, and the production of milk by about 10 %. Farmers and industry organizations are sounding the alarm that agriculture in Europe is going to be destroyed and the problem with greenhouse gas emissions will not go away.

As experts also argue, Europe may be flooded with food from third countries, where production standards are much lower.

Pekka Pesonen spoke about the threats that the Green Deal will bring to agriculture. Copa-Cogeca’s Secretary General spoke to the Institute of Agricultural Economics about the consequences for Polish agriculture if the EU’s ideas come into effect. According to our interlocutor, we are facing the end of agriculture as we know it.