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I am pleased that we are setting up a Community scheme to promote eating fruit in schools. The positive impact of this scheme can be considered on many levels: social, economic and financial.
As a member of Parliament’s Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, I can see that the scheme will have clearly favourable consequences on European agriculture and fruit farming, in the form of increased demand for fruit and the maintenance of high production levels in Europe. I am also a father, and as a father I can see a positive outcome which is hard to quantify: the health of the young generation. Increasing the proportion of fruit and vegetables in the diet of school-age children is of huge importance, as their eating habits are formed during that time.
In Poland, fruit and vegetable consumption is approximately 250 g per person per day. This level is among the lowest in the Community: only the Czech Republic, Latvia and Slovakia consume less. The Community average is 380 g, whereas the World Health Organization/Food and Agriculture Organization recommended minimum daily consumption of fruit and vegetables is 400 g. Countries such as Poland need a major school fruit promotional campaign.
I hope that the School Fruit Scheme will soon be successfully introduced in all educational institutions throughout the European Union and will remain a permanent element of its educational policy."@en1
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