Reading Time: 2 minutes Indian farmers demanding higher prices for their produce paused their protest on Wednesday after the government made a new offer to resume talks, hours after police fired tear gas and used water cannons to scatter thousands staging a march to Delhi.
Indian farmers pause protest march to Delhi after government offers talks
Farmers demanding higher crop prices backed by law
Protesting Greek farmers drive tractors to parliament
Farmers to add pressure on gov., which has offered power bill discount, extension of fuel rebate
Reading Time: 2 minutes Farmers from across Greece drove their tractors to Athens on Tuesday, stepping up weeks of protests over rising costs, foreign competition and catastrophic flooding.
Indian farmers pause protest march to Delhi as government talks continue
Farmers pressing government to set minimum prices for produce ahead of election
Reading Time: 2 minutes Indian farmers demanding higher prices for their crops said they had paused their protest march to New Delhi on Friday until their unions hold another round of talks with government ministers on Sunday.
India security forces fire tear gas at protesting farmers on drive to Delhi
Farmers calling for promised higher prices for their produce
Reading Time: 3 minutes Indian security forces fired tear gas at protesting farmers for a second day on Wednesday to stop tens of thousands from marching to the capital New Delhi to demand higher prices for their produce.
Head of French farmers union says protests could resume
Government in talks with farmers over prices, regulation and bureaucracy but union says its not doing enough
Reading Time: < 1 minute The head of France's biggest farming union - the FNSEA - said on Tuesday that protests that hit the sector last month could resume if the government does not do more to meet their demands for better pay and working conditions.
Ukraine seeks action against Polish farmers for grain spillage
Polish agriculture minister apologizes for "act of desperation"
Reading Time: 2 minutes Kyiv urged Warsaw on Monday to "hold to account" Polish farmers for stopping three trucks at a border crossing between Poland and Ukraine and spilling the Ukrainian grain they were carrying.
Indian police block roads to halt farmers marching to New Delhi
Farmers accuse Modi gov. of slow rollout of promised higher prices
Reading Time: 2 minutes Indian police on Monday blocked roads to halt farmers who were marching to New Delhi to press for the better crop prices promised to them in 2021 when thousands of growers camped out on major highways leading to the country's capital.
Tractors choke Spanish city streets as farmers protest EU policy
Spain's government, EU distribute additional subsidies, scrap plan to halve pesticide use
Reading Time: 2 minutes Spanish farmers drove tractors through city streets, disrupting traffic on Thursday as they stepped up their protests against soaring costs, bureaucracy and cheap competition from outside the European Union.
Italy’s farmers head to Rome in tractor convoy protest
Protests in France, Germany eased; farmers blocked Dutch-Belgian border
Reading Time: 2 minutes Italian farmers protesting about red tape and cheap imports from outside the EU headed towards Rome in convoys of tractors on Monday, while their colleagues in the north led a cow through the streets of Milan.
Ukraine’s farm unions ask government to protect free EU market access
The European Commission has proposed limited Ukrainian imports to pacify protesting farmers
Reading Time: 2 minutes Ukrainian agrarian unions have asked the government to do everything possible to maintain free access to the European market for their food products, the UCAB association said on Monday.
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