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"Mr President, nearly every year various regions of Europe experience various kinds of natural disaster. We hear of droughts, flooding caused by torrential rainfall or strong winds. This year, we were unfortunately not spared from the effects of frost. The frosts that affected the northern and eastern parts of Central Europe between April and May, when the ground temperature fell as low as -10 degrees Celsius, caused a great deal of devastation to the farming sector.
The crops that suffered included early vegetables, apple and pear trees, sweet and morello cherries, plums and soft fruit. In some regions of Poland the losses have been so great that the financial position of many farms will seriously deteriorate. Until now, Polish farmers and orchard owners only rarely sought to protect their crops from frost as this is a very expensive endeavour and they often simply could not afford it.
However, the wave of cold weather did not only affect my country. Orchard owners and farmers also suffered, albeit to a lesser extent, in Germany, Holland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, and even in northern Romania.
Commissioner, we need consistent actions which aim not only to provide financial aid to affected orchard owners, farmers and producers but, above all, to find solutions which would counteract or alleviate the effects of natural disasters, which are occurring more frequently due to climate change."@en1
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