Some farms should pay higher agricultural insurance premiums, believes Marek Sawicki, Polish Peasants Party’s candidate for agriculture minister in the new coalition government by PSL and the Civic Platform.

Sawicki explained that this increase would apply only to farm enterprises which breed animals and grow plants for sale and not for their own use.

“People running farm enterprises should pay higher premiums for KRUS [the Agricultural Social Insurance Fund],” declared Sawicki in an interview for the Polish Radio. He failed to mention, however, how much the premiums should grow.

If PSL implements this plan, it would affect, above all, animal farm and processing plants owners, fruit growers, and organic-food farmers.

On the other hand, the increase would be beneficial to those Poles who do not work in agriculture and pay their premiums to the Social Insurance Institution (ZUS), because it’s them who provide for KRUS with their taxes.

Poles working outside farming industry pay three times higher insurance premiums than farmers, thanks to which the state’s budget can meet extra charges for agricultural insurance to the tune of some15,000,000 zlotys a year.