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In Poland atm you can't even buy farmland unless you are a registered farmer in the local county already. Its a new rule and hopefully they remove it cause its insane.

And then of course you can't just build on it. You may attempt to reclassify it into building land but from TFA it seems the process is just as tedious as in India and definietely not guaranteed to succeed.

Theres a big chance, once you get to the building, you will have to monitor the builders constantly otherwise they rob you blind. From my friend in India I was told they have the same problem.




First you have to ask yourself why would such a rule exist? Sometimes it is done in the interest of national security. Or you run into issues such as a desert kingdom purchasing rights to use massive quantities of farmland where water is already scarce. See Saudi Alfalfa in California. Or why Bill Gates is the biggest private farm land owner in the United States at around 242,000 acres and climbing. You need to look past the knee jerk assumption that the government is schizophrenic. There may be greater forces at play this intends to put the brakes on without overtly prohibiting those activities.


The policy doesn't make sense. Farming benefits massively from economies of scale, and farmland in most of Eastern Europe is already very fragmented due to "agricultural reforms" in 45. If you're not familiar with that situation it is you who need to ask themselves some questions. Look at how messed up Haiti is, much of that results from the way they delt with land ownership. Every family owing their own little scrap of land sounds nice, but makes zero economic sense.

I didn't say the goverment is schizofrenic, but their message certainly plays on xenophobic fears. Its clearly a part of a populist agenda, because we need people with capital buying up land, but its super easy to frame this as a malevolent action to less educated people, and that is what is being done for purely political reasons. And this policy is exactly what I would call "overly prohibiting": I can't sell my farmland even to local farmers who live a few miles away cause they happen to be in a different couty. Cmon thats just stupid.


This reply is the perfect "Chesterson's Fence"!




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