Farmers of Karditsa spell retired to protestation again: astatine the tallness of Holy Week they block the E65 highway, demanding subsidies, outgo reductions and support for agriculture.
The enactment is planned for Holy Tuesday astatine 12:00 astatine the E65 motorway junction. Not lone section farmers, but besides representatives of cultivation associations from Western Macedonia will take portion successful it.
The initiator was Illustration (United Federation of Agricultural Associations of Karditsa), which, aft an extended meeting, decided to resume protestation actions.
Farmers’ demands
The main crushed for the protests remains fiscal and accumulation problems, which, according to farmers, are becoming critical.
- payment of each subsidy arrears done ΟΠΕΚΕΠΕ nary abbreviations;
- introduction of guaranteed prices for cultivation products;
- reduction of accumulation costs (fuel, electricity, materials);
- introducing tax-free cultivation fuels;
- debt restructuring and write-off;
- implementation of flood power projects successful Thessaly;
- ending persecution for information successful erstwhile protests.
Expansion of protests
Farmers from different regions are joining the initiative. In particular, cultivation associations successful Western Macedonia expressed support, stating:
“The week of passionateness for farmers does not extremity with patience – it continues with struggle.”
This indicates that the protestation has the imaginable to turn into a broader movement.
Editorial comment
Farmer protests successful Greece person agelong ceased to beryllium one-time actions – they are a systemic absorption to the accumulated problems of the industry.
Rising accumulation costs, delayed payments and unstable prices make a situation successful which agriculture operates connected the borderline of profitability.
And each caller artifact of routes is not so overmuch unit connected the authorities arsenic a awesome that the existent exemplary nary longer works.
The question is whether this awesome will beryllium heard or, arsenic often happens, the situation will beryllium “relived” again without systemic solutions.
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