Farmland prices
- (Photo: Lis Lak Risager)
Farmland in the Netherlands is 30 times more expensive than in Poland. Dutch farmers have therefore started to buy cheap farmland in Poland. 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 are 10 times less than on the German side of the border. The Czechs have a transition period of seven years or, if a safeguard clause is involved, 10 years.
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See also Derogations for information on the various transition periods.