INFORMATION PORTAL OF THE MARSHAL'S OFFICE OF THE KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE Region IN TORUŃ

Today (24 June), agreements were signed at the Ethnographic Museum in Toruń for co-financing the modernisation of access roads to agricultural land. The ceremony was attended by Marshal Piotr Całbecki, Vice-Marshal Aneta Jędrzejewska, member of the regional board Dariusz Kurzawa, Deputy Chairman of the Regional Council Przemysław Sznajdrowski and Regional Councillor Przemysław Ziemecki.

This year, we will co-finance 68 road investments carried out by municipal authorities on access roads to agricultural land with a total length of 51.5 kilometres and co-financing of PLN 13.5 million.

‘The Kujawsko-Pomorskie countryside is changing and becoming an increasingly attractive place to live. I would like to thank local government officials for using our funds and carrying out investments in smaller and larger towns in our region,’ said Marshal Piotr Całbecki.

The funds allocated to subsidise local governments for this purpose come from annual fees and charges for the exclusion of agricultural and forest land from production. The fees, which compensate for the exclusion of land from agricultural production and its use for non-agricultural purposes, are intended, in the context of social justice and sustainable development, to compensate society for the irretrievable loss to the environment resulting from the change in land use.

The region’s budget revenues obtained in accordance with the Act of 3 February 1995 on the protection of agricultural and forest land (Journal of Laws of 2022 item 2409) are allocated to broadly understood activities in the field of protection and reclamation of agricultural land, including such socially important matters as the construction and modernisation of access roads to agricultural land. These funds may be applied for by local governments from the province, and their distribution is carried out by the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Provincial Government.

The modernisation projects financed in this way involve laying a hard or paved surface using a technology selected by the local authorities, constructing exits and draining the road.

Support from the regional government for the modernisation of access roads to arable land

• investments in 1999-2024: a total of 2,340 km of roads
• expenditure in 1999-2024: PLN 150 million
• value of investments in 2024 alone: PLN 27 million

Department of Agriculture and Geodesy of the Marshal’s Office

24 June 2025