![]() ![]() Is it our fault or the fault of the authorities who couldn’t put a stop to that?” he says. They’re industrialists that poison our lives here, wear out the roads and cause the value of property to fall,” she adds.Ī local breeder agrees, although he says he cannot speak openly because “I’m one of them and I have to say what others say.” “These are not farmers, which is what they like to say about themselves. You can’t go out to your garden to have a coffee, the smell is so bad,” says Goliat. When it’s blowing from the farms, you have to wash your clothes after a few hours outside. After two years of legal battles, close to the entire commune is now covered by the plans. Photograph: Jakub Kamiński/East News/Rex/ShutterstockĪfter taking office in 2014, the mayor of Żuromin, Aneta Goliat, fought to push through local zoning plans to prevent poultry producers building more farms in the town and its county. Some local communities are fighting the rapid growth of the poultry industry.Īn industrial-scale chicken farm near the village of Zieluń. All it takes is a single farm where biosecurity wasn’t up to par,” says Prof Piotr Szeleszczuk at Warsaw University of Life Sciences. The virus can spread up to three kilometres from an outbreak. “No biosecurity standards will work in this concentration of production. The value of poultry exports last year was 12.5bn złoty (£2.4bn), a drop of 8% from 2019, although in terms of actual volume, there was growth of 3% to 1.8m tonnes.ĭisease specialists say the bird flu outbreak has hit Lewandowski’s region hard because of the high concentration of poultry farms. In 2004, the year Poland became a member state, its poultry exports were just 142,000 tonnes – against overall production of about 800,000 tonnes. ![]() Poland’s EU membership was a turning point for the industry. No biosecurity standards will work in this concentration of production Prof Piotr Szeleszczuk Poland’s largest ever outbreak comes after more than a decade and a half of growth that has seen the country become the EU’s biggest poultry producer, and a major exporter to countries including the UK. About 13.5 million birds have died since the autumn of 2020, with most dying in 2021.Īvian influenza or “bird flu” occurs naturally throughout the wild bird population, but has been detected in humans too, with cases reported in China and Russia this year. Carried by migrating birds, more than 330 highly pathogenic outbreaks have been recorded by the country’s veterinary officials. Avian influenza has hit Poland hard since late last year. ![]()
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