DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
The Departments’ duties include numerous activities in rural development and its employees’ duties include taking care of hunting and fishing management, animal protection, flora preservation, seed production and renewable sources of energy. They also protect the best interests of, for example, fruit and vegetable manufacturers’ groups and water law companies associations (e.g. decisions agreements on building conditions or water devices). The Department also controls permissions for alcoholic beverages wholesale (up to 18 percent abv), and implements tasks on tax zone changes.
The Department’s basic concern is analysis of the current situation and planning of rural and countryside development under the Programme ”Development Strategy in the Wielkopolska Region” and the ”Rural and Village Areas in Wielkopolska Development Strategy”. Furthermore, the Department cooperates with the Chamber of Agriculture and with farmers’ social and professional organisations, unions and branch associations, scientific and educational institutions and with foreign agencies to collectively solve the rural problems of the Region.
The Department informs its rural areas’ inhabitants about possible actions in agriculture and village modernisation, and also tries to create non-agricultural possibilities for earning money. In order to activate the inhabitants of these areas, the Department carries out different contests, such as the ”Wielkopolski Rolnik Roku” (Farmer of the Year in Wielkopolska) and ”Polish Food Producer”, and cooperates in the ”Pro-ecological and pro-cultural activities under the framework of rural areas development strategies” contest. This last contest is also a part of the heavily promoted Wielkopolska Ecological Rural Development Project.
The Department is also responsible for protecting rural and forested areas. It gives opinions on the proposals for changing those areas’ purpose and controls abiding regulations arising from law regulating those issues.
The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development also gives opinion on the financial and assignment plans of the Government agencies and The Regional Directorate of the State Forests, so that they are in line with the Region’s Strategy.
Contact
ul. Piekary 17
61-823 Poznań
rooms 701-705
tel.: +48 61 626 65 00
faks: +48 61 626 65 01
e-mail: dr.sekretariat@umww.pl
Director
Marek Beer
tel.: +48 61 626 65 00
e-mail: marek.beer@umww.pl
Deputy Director
Dariusz Młynarczyk
tel.: +48 61 626 65 00
e-mail: dariusz.mlynarczyk@umww.pl
Deputy Director
Marcin Nurkowski
tel.: +48 61 626 65 00
e-mail: marcin.nurkowski@umww.pl