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| Czech farmers have a surplus of 2.6 million tons of grain. (Source: Crisis 24) |
The Czech Farmers' Association admitted on April 18 that farmers in the country have a surplus of 2.6 million tons of grain in warehouses due to a 40% increase in wheat imports from Ukraine compared to the same period in 2022.
According to the association, the Czech Republic's wheat trade has been practically stagnant since the fall of 2022. The Czech Republic has a large grain surplus after importing low-quality Ukrainian wheat, while the Czech Republic is facing the risk of running out of storage for high-quality grain grown domestically according to European Union (EU) standards.
If this threat materializes, people will buy flour and bread made from lower-quality Ukrainian grain, while farmers will have to burn their crops, according to Martin Pyscha, the association’s president. The European market is so saturated with Ukrainian grain that Czech farmers cannot export their own grain, Pyscha said.
According to the Czech Ministry of the Interior , as of January 2023, the EU imported 3.526 million tons of wheat, of which the Czech Republic imported nearly 4,000 tons. Compared to the Czech Republic's total domestic grain production of approximately 4.8 million tons, the amount of nearly 4,000 tons imported above is insignificant. Meanwhile, the Farmers' Association said that its own warehouses currently have 1.6 million tons of wheat.
Previously, on April 17, the Czech Ministry of Agriculture announced that it had no plans to ban the import of Ukrainian grain because this was contrary to the conditions of the EU's single market and the World Trade Organization (WTO).
The Ukrainian grain problem needs a European Union (EU)-wide solution instead of countries like Poland, Hungary and Slovakia issuing their own bans, according to the Czech Ministry of Agriculture.
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