The Prime Minister of Poland claims European Union measures to help farmers affected by a glut of Ukrainian food imports are too little too late.

On Friday, the government approved 3.23 billion dollars Canadian in aid for Polish agriculture.

Central European countries are trying to thrash out a deal with Brussels on EU-wide measures to help agriculture, after some of them unilaterally introduced import bans on Ukrainian food products.

Several central European countries became transit routes for Ukrainian grain that could not be exported through the country’s Black Sea ports because of Russia’s invasion in February 2022.

Bottlenecks then trapped millions of tons of grains in countries bordering Ukraine, forcing local farmers to compete with an influx of cheap Ukrainian imports.