On March 6, Polish media quoted the country's Minister of Internal Affairs and Public Administration, Mr. Marcin Kierwinski, as saying that the police would not allow protesting farmers to enter the capital Warsaw on tractors.
"Tractors will not be allowed to run through the city center because there is a ban. The police will enforce this ban," Minister Kerwinski stressed.
The statement by Polish government officials came as farmers in the country planned to hold a large protest in the capital Warsaw on March 6, including using agricultural tractors to march.
On February 9, Polish farmers began large-scale protests across the country, blocking roads and checkpoints at the border with Ukraine. Protesters also dumped grain from Ukrainian trains onto the roads on several occasions. The protesters’ main demands were to stop agricultural imports from Ukraine to Poland and to abandon the European Union’s environmental plans (known as the Green Deal) that aim to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. Polish farmers argue that opening the EU market to Ukrainian agricultural products has led to a drop in domestic prices and unfair competition.