Stara Kamienica - Nemo

A big problem is that the local people don’t want to participate in an organization for
promoting places to stay for tourists by giving information about their situation. They want to
work individually. Even they are afraid to register themselves at the municipality as a place to
stay for tourists, when it’s for free and in their own profit. But they are afraid that the
regulations will change and they might have to pay tax later on. If they are registered, then it’s
easy for the government to trace them.
Agriculture is very difficult in this area, since the soil is of bad quality, the old people are
dying and the young people are not willing to be a farmer. The watering system has to and
will be improved.
To keep animals is a problem, since sometimes there is not enough water for them and soil
isn’t good for cropping food for them.
3rd-June
Friday
Afternoon Lepinski-Local farmer (Rich man in the local region) In the village-
Kopaniec All of us
Analysis General about Lipinski’s farm
Lipinski has three cows at this moment, those cows give 4000 liter/year/cow. Lipinski have
traditional polish, red-white cows. Lipinski said these kinds of cows are very suitable and
resistant in this are. They have one bull, he is two using bull (milk and meat). In his region
there is only one person who qualified enough to do insemination (artificial fucking). Before
the transformation of the system in Poland he had 11 cows. After changing of this system he
started to have economic problems (market problem) and it forced them to reduce the amount
of cows. The main problem was more production what the local market can accept. His family
has 50 ha land all together.
Product and market
At this moment he produces eggs, milk, crops, cheese, potatoes, chicken, duck and gooses.
All the products he sells to private local people and he has not have any competition because
no other farmers who produce.
He focuses on ecological agriculture, he sad the EU market is already full of agricultural
products and the EU is interested in paying money to polish farmers not to produce.
Ecological-agricultural production is a big opportunity for Polish farmers.
After transformation the national dairy companies collapsed, so the farmers started to have
problems to sell milk that is why they started to add more value to the milk products and
make cheese because there are most interest to cheese products, what we mentioned before
this was the reason to full of the market with cheese products.
At this moment the village produced 200 000 liter of milk/ day. This is too much in this local
market. That is why he had to reduce the amount of cows.
He is able to produce butte from a cream but there is no market yet.
Sell product
He has one shop where he sells his products but the shoppers find everything in the shop. It is
not good to employ people to work because of the expensive national insurance that he has to
pay for each employee.
Cooperation
The farmers produce /do something but they don’t cooperate with each other in every village
Tourism
He is not interested in tourism, he did not have any contact with NEMO, but he is interested
in to sell their products to tourist and maybe it is possible to cooperate with NEMO in this
way. There are more communities in Kopaniec (Dutch, German, Polish farmers, artists) but
they are very closed and there is a lack of communication among them. He likes individual