Both currents are closed at least until eight in the evening – Farmers from all over the country are meeting in Larissa on Tuesday
In a long time exclusion of the National Road Neo Moudania – Thessaloniki in both currents, olive producers, farmers and breeders are advancing today, expressing their strong dissatisfaction with the measures announced by the prime minister and other government officials.
“We cannot return to our fields, they are throwing crumbs at us at the moment when we shout nationwide that we are at our end, we are extinguished”, the president of the Semantron Agricultural Cooperative, Filoklis Kotzias, points out speaking to APE-MPE, adding that “our exclusion starts at 10 in the morning and will expire after eight in the evening and will be in both streams on the N. Moudaion-Thessaloniki national road”.
Yes, for tomorrowthe people of the primary sector in Halkidiki – who have set up a roadblock at the Galatista junction – emphasize that in consultation with the police they have already “locked” the descent them with tractor at Thessaloniki and with destination the building of the ministry of Macedonia-Thrace, where they want to deliver the resolution of their claims.
“We are gonna start convoys 35 tractors from the block they have set up at the N. Moudania junction, but within the city and bound for YMATH we will move 20 tractors”, emphasizes Mr. Kotzias.
The requests of the farmers of Halkidiki are the compensations for the unharvested olives, the agricultural electricity and the oil, the return of 100% of the subsidies that were cut, the quick and fair distribution of the ELGA compensations, forest maps and the restoration of the equalization compensation in the prefecture.
Responding to the repeated invitations of the Minister of Rural Development and Food for dialogue, Mr. Kotzias notes that “a delegation from our prefecture has already held four meetings with the minister and we have not seen any action from him. The olive producers, with a loss of income of more than 400 million euros, due to fruitlessness are “dying” and no one deals with us. We have had enough of words, we want actions” and adds “we are not even sure that the Greek prime minister knows exactly what is happening in our prefecture and the devastation we have suffered”.
Source: Skai
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