First Makes an attempt by Protesting Farmers to Block Highways This Week – tovima.com

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First Attempts by Protesting Farmers to Block Highways This Week

The virtually annual late January to early February “ceremony” of farmers’ protests in central Greece, replete with parked tractors and combines blocking nationwide roadways, turned a definite prospect this week.

Teams of protesting farmers clashed with assembled riot police on two events on Thursday throughout makes an attempt to park agriculture automobiles on the primary north-south freeway in Greece (E65), as a part of a bevy of calls for principally involving state subsidies and compensation.

Related protest actions by farmers and stockbreeders have been a “seasonal prevalence” in Greece going again some 40 years, nearly all the time happening throughout the agricultural sector’s “down time”, in January and February, and with essentially the most dynamic mobilizations within the central Thessaly province.

Three or 4 organized teams of farmers have threatened to dam roads this week.

In a single occasion on Thursday, riot police used tear gasoline and lobbed stun grenades to maintain a gaggle of farmers from blocking the freeway. Finally phrase, protesting farmers had parked automobiles beside the closed tollway at one major juncture.

Amongst others, the farmers’ groupings and unions within the area are demanding that the state reimburse misplaced earnings from decrease manufacturing and crop costs. They’re additionally demanding tax-free diesel gas, a ceiling on electrical energy charges for agricultural makes use of, capped at seven cents per Kwh, backed fertilizers, provides and animal feed.

The “laundry listing” of calls for, nevertheless, doesn’t finish there, as printed bulletins additionally petition for at least 100% compensation of losses of farm capital and manufacturing, full protection within the face of pure dangers and plant/animal ailments by the state-run insurance coverage fund (ELGA), and state-sanctioned “…assured costs for our merchandise and our survival, and inexpensive costs for standard consumption…”

Lastly, the “bundle of calls for” features a name for hikes in farm sector pensions.

One of many factors raised, which is unrelated to a larger subsidization of the sector, is for the state to finish infrastructure works within the wider Thessaly province to higher shield in opposition to pure disasters and repairing earlier damages.

The area suffered extreme flooding and large associated harm in early September 2023 from record-breaking precipitation on the time.