{"id":8,"date":"2016-05-24T21:49:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T21:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tgav.eu\/about-us\/"},"modified":"2017-01-30T04:41:21","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T04:41:21","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tgav.eu\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Innovating with industrial hemp to boost economic development in Poland\u2019s rural areas<\/h2>\n<p>Poland\u2019s rural areas are destined for slow growth or a slow downward spiral based on current conditions. Local economic development can only be driven by innovative, well-conceived local initiatives that bind farmers together, and merge farming and manufacturing processes to produce products that can be sold across Europe. Such development can go a long way to reversing the negative economics of Polish villages and towns.<\/p>\n<p>To Grow a Village is a public-private project for rural economic development working in concert with local government, relevant Polish national ministries and regulators, entrepreneurs and investors.<\/p>\n<p>We believe growing industrial hemp and the development of low-level local hemp processing and manufacturing facilities holds great potential to expand the economies of Poland\u2019s rural villages, towns and counties, which suffer the lingering after-effects of socialist policies imposed during the post-WWII period to 1989.<\/p>\n<p>While 97% of Polish farms are now in private hands, fully half are held by Polish farmers who work small subsistence-level plots on a \u201cfrom my field to my table\u201d basis \u2013 with very little outside commercial activity.<\/p>\n<h2>Poland Agriculture Facts<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Agricultural land represents 17.2 of 31.3 million hectares total land<\/li>\n<li>2 million private farms cover 90% of all agricultural land<\/li>\n<li>The average farm size is 8 hectares<\/li>\n<li>Large farms (over 15 hectares) account for 9% of all farms<\/li>\n<li>Large farms occupy 45% of agricultural land<\/li>\n<li>More than half of the farmers use their land only for subsistence production (small commercial activity)<\/li>\n<li>The main crops grown in Poland are\u00a0potatoes, corn, sugar beets and rapeseed<\/li>\n<li>Poland is the world&#8217;s largest producer and exporter of apples<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Farm Facts: Villages in Poland<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Slow growth or stagnation<\/li>\n<li>High unemployment<\/li>\n<li>The outflow of young people to the cities or abroad<\/li>\n<li>High rate of alcoholism and other social problems<\/li>\n<li>High level of education<\/li>\n<li>Solid\u00a0administrative and political relationships<\/li>\n<li>38.5% of the population lives in rural areas<\/li>\n<li>National and European funds to support the development (infrastructure, agriculture, tourism, etc.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Innovating with industrial hemp to boost economic development in Poland\u2019s rural areas Poland\u2019s rural areas are destined for slow growth or a slow downward spiral based on current conditions. 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