Rural rally is going to take place tomorrow Saturday in the midst of the 30th-anniversary- Agrotica. Information indicates that it is planned to start at 12 noon, and it is possible that it will take place in an outdoor area within the exhibition center. Farmers from Northern Greece, Thessaly, Sterea and Western Greece.

Farmers, breeders and beekeepers since yesterday when the 30th Agrotica opened its doors, they have parked with 300 tractors on the pavement of the southern arch of TIF, while the fishermen remain with their boats in the bay of Thessaloniki, expressing their support for the demands of the sector.

The farmers from Central Macedonia remain at the roadblocks they have set up all the previous days, declaring to APE-MPE that “there is no turning back if our just demands are not met”. They hold constant meetings, aiming to redefine their next move.

Symbolic blockade of the southern gate of TIF earlier

In a symbolic block of half an hourof the southern gate of the International Exhibition Center of Thessaloniki, farmer groups came forward, expressing their strong dissatisfaction with the announcements of the prime minister and government officials and saying to APE-MPE “we expect and want to hear documented solutions and not superficial announcements”.

“We think they are fooling us, we want real and substantial solutions”, said the farmer from Lagada, Kostas Hatziparadeisis, speaking to APE-MPE and notes, among other things, “we are asking for agricultural oil at the pump”. He mentions, at the same time, that “the return excise duty on oil is not satisfying anyone in the primary sector.’

Including, the participants in the mobilizations emphasize to APE-MPE that the primary sector and its problems are not limited to Thessaly. They underline that obviously and rightly the affected areas of the country are additionally strengthened by the severe weather phenomena, however they state that “the primary sector is all of Greece and all its individual sectors”. Many even say that “now is when our real struggle begins , we will not step back.”

Regarding yesterday’s announcements by the Minister of Rural Development and Food, Mr. Hatziparadeisis, representing the participants in the rural mobilizations in Thessaloniki, notes: “Everything he announced is a drop in the ocean. They don’t even touch on the real and existing problems of the primary sector, which if they are not addressed, we will disappear and leave the Greek land, in debt and unemployed”.