Poland's Minister Of Agriculture Should Know Polish Pig's Reproductive Cycle

Warsaw, Poland 2 February, 2007 The Polish Minister of Finance is not happy that Poland has started making purchases of pork that Minister of Agriculture Andrej Lepper had demanded. They have had words and their spat has gone public.

Lepper had demanded a purchase of 80 thousand tons be made or he would bring down the Government coalition. He got his way.

The Government is starting with a purchase of 10 thousand tons.

The Government will make gradual purchases throughout the spring up to the 80 thousand ton mark.

There is not enough money in the budget to complete the purchase. So there will be a special committee meeting in the Polish Parliament to allocate another 100 million zloty from a reserve fund to the budget to complete the purchase.

But the Finance Minister, Zita Gilowska, is not happy with Lepper. She said that the pig's reproductive cycle is well known and you can predict it with one weeks accuracy. Lepper should have reacted earlier, He should have known that there will be a problem

Lepper said that Gilowska should take care of public finance reform and not interfere in agriculture. She is trying to break the coalition by criticising Lepper and his political party Samoobrona. She is showing that they are incompetent.

He will be talking with the Prime Minister, Jaroslaw Kaczynski. He does not want Gilowska to be dismissed. He wants her to only to take care of finances.

The EU has told Poland that public support of the meat prices is contrary to EU rules.

Poland says that it is just increasing Poland's meat reserves.

The EU is looking into the matter.

Source: masterpage.com.pl