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Farmland prices

(Photo: Lis Lak Risager)

Farmland in the Netherlands is 30 times more expensive than in Poland. Dutch farmers therefore began buying up cheap farmland in Poland already before Poland became a member of the EU in 2004. The Polish agreement with the EU contains a transition period of 3 to 12 years during which non-Polish EU citizens cannot purchase Polish farmland. However, in practice transitions do not apply to individual farmers who lease and buy the land.

In the Czech "Sudetenland", farmland prices were 10 times less than on the German side of the border. The Czechs therefore had a transition period of seven years or, if a safeguard clause is involved, 10 years.

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