This Thursday, farmers took to the streets with their tractors, from north to south, demanding recognition of the sector and fair conditions in a protest that is expected to block several roads, as has happened in other parts of Europe.
We are talking about the initiative of the Civil Farmers’ Movement, which began at 6 o’clock in the morning.
The protest comes a day after the government announced a package worth more than €400 million aimed at mitigating the effects of drought and strengthening the Common Agricultural Policy Strategic Plan (PEPAC).
According to a statement released this Wednesday, farmers are demanding the right to adequate food, fair conditions and recognition of their activities.
The movement, which describes itself as spontaneous and non-partisan, ensured that Portuguese farmers were ready to “defend themselves against the constant attacks on sustainability, food sovereignty and rural life.”
Alentejo farmers have vowed to blockade the region’s three main borders with Spain with tractors and agricultural machinery, namely Caia (Elvas, Portalegre district), Mouran (Evora) and Vila Verde de Ficalho (Serpa, Beja district).
Protest has also grown in countries such as Spain, Belgium, Greece, Germany and Italy.
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Updated February 1, 2024 | 11:46
“Until they give us an answer”: Farmers provide opportunity for protest that will last several days
Farmers leave Ponte da Chamusca to cut off the A23 motorway
About 800 farmers and 100 tractors concentrated in Ponte da Chamusca will move to a new protest point and block traffic on Highway 23, the Civil Farmers’ Movement said.
“In Chamuska, the protest has ended and farmers and vehicles are gathering at the meeting point to move towards the A23, where the road will be closed near the Cardiga exit, towards Tomar,” Lusa news agency reported. Ribatejo and Oeste region, Nuno Mayer.
According to Nuno Mayer, the protest “from the beginning involved about 800 farmers and more than a hundred tractors”, which this Thursday morning obstructed traffic on Ponte da Chamusca in the Santarém area, which was cut off for several hours.
Hundreds of tractors are idle on the EN111 highway towards Coimbra
Since 10:30, hundreds of tractors and agricultural vehicles have been slowly moving along the National Road (EN) 111 towards the center of Coimbra, where protest activists hope to gather half a thousand vehicles by the end of the morning.
The demonstration, apparently spontaneous and not part of the protest program of the Civil Farmers’ Movement of Portugal, which is taking place this Thursday in various parts of the country, came from a group of agricultural producers from Baixo Mondego, who were concentrated in Montemoro. – Velho, about 25 kilometers from Coimbra.
Low participation hinders slow march in Algarve
The low number of participants this Thursday prevented a slow march that Algarve farmers had planned between Faro and Castro Marim, with only one route taking the motorway between Faro and Tavira, a source in the organization said.
A concentration of farmers was called to the Algarve stadium in the Parque das Cidades Faro-Lole at 5:00 am, and the departure to Castro Marim along Estrada Nacional 125 was planned for 6:00 am, but a group of about 15 participants left Faro towards Tavira only at 8:30 am.
Initially, Fatima da Rocha, a representative of the Civil Movement of Portuguese Farmers, the organizer of the protest, told Lusa that the intention was to head to Tavira along the A22 motorway and meet other protesters there, but at around 10 am the same source said that “due to low levels participation, the route to Castro Marim will no longer be used.”
“In the Algarve it is a pity that there was not such a big participation, but the farmers of the region are in solidarity with the demands put forward by their colleagues from other parts of the country,” said Fátima da Rocha, adding that already in Tavira the protesters who were present came to the conclusion that it was better do not march slowly towards Castro Marim.
Drone footage shows long queues on the A6 motorway due to farmers’ protest
Farmers’ protest reduces traffic in Mimosa
Farmers came together this Thursday and blocked traffic in Mimosa as well as in various parts of the country in protest.
About 50 tractors idling in Mogadora took part in the protest.
Farmers from Planalto Mirandês took to the streets this Thursday in Mogaduro, Bragança district, holding a slow march with about 50 tractors, demanding better conditions and more financial support from the government.
At 9:45 am, farmers led a slow march involving about fifty tractors through the town of Mogadora and displayed banners reading “Our end is your hunger” among other slogans.
Dario Mendez, a precarious producer in the municipality of Mogadouro, told Lusa that the protest aims to show civil society that the agricultural sector is abandoned and aid payments “arrive late and in bad times.”
500 agricultural vehicles block the A25 in the municipality of Almeida
Hundreds of farmers from the central region have been blocking the A25 motorway since early Thursday morning in the Alto de Leomil area, municipality of Almeida, about 13 kilometers from the Vilar-Formoso border, and say they are ready to maintain the blockade until they understand what has happened in the sector changes.
“We have here, of course, more than 500 machines and there will be about 700 farmers,” said Luse Ricardo Estrela, representative of the Beiras region of the Portuguese Civil Farmers Movement, which is organizing a protest this Thursday in different parts of the country. . a country.
Traffic on the A25 motorway in the Alto de Leomil area of Guarda district has been stopped since 06:00 by a decision of the authorities, traffic has been diverted to national roads.
Trucks from Spain were banned from entering Portugal due to a farmers’ protest on the A6 highway in Elvas
NTC soldier calms tensions during farmers’ protest in Vilar Formoso
“Our state that abandoned us”: A disgruntled farmer takes part in the march on Ponte da Chamusca
Bioregions demand restoration of all aid to organic farming
Five Portuguese bioregions demanded this Thursday that the government resume all aid to organic agriculture and warned the authorities of the “strong impact” on their territory of the planned reduction of eco-regimes.
In a joint note sent this Thursday to the Lusa agency, the bioregions of Idanha a Nova, Lagos do Sabor, S. Pedro do Sul, Alto Tamega and Barroso, Marge Esquerda do Guadiana and the Portuguese coordinator of the International Network bioregions. stressed that Portugal has committed to increase the area of organic production to 19% of SAU.
They added that this is “a clear signal of their intention to support cleaner production methods, with this goal dependent on direct assistance in converting and maintaining organic production methods.”
“The Ministry of Agriculture does not exist”: Farmers are unhappy with the lack of support
With flag raised and protest posters: images of Elvas farmers
The A25 is cut in both directions at Vilar Formoso and the EN260 at the Alentejo border at Vila Verde de Ficalho.
Around 100 tractors and agricultural machines cut the National Road 260 (EN260) in the Vila Verde de Ficalho (Beja) area, close to the border with Spain, from 3am as part of a farmers’ demonstration. Dozens of agricultural vehicles and farmers have been blocking traffic on Highway 25 (A25) between the Leomil and Vilar Formoso intersection in Guarda since 6 am.
At the exit from Vila Verde de Ficalho towards Spain, where there are also some vehicles and members of the NTC, the first tractors are parked in the middle of the road and crossed.
Farmers blocked traffic on the A6 highway in Elvas
A group of farmers blocked the A6 motorway in both directions one kilometer from Badajoz (Spain), with traffic moving along a secondary road under the “supervision” of the Portuguese and Spanish authorities.
The A6 motorway was closed in the area near Spain at 6.40am in a “peaceful and orderly manner”, according to the Civic Farmers Movement, which is promoting the protest.
At around 7am, another convoy of vans and all-terrain vehicles, led by a GNR vehicle, entered the A6 motorway towards the Caia border, but shortly after the Elvas Oeste intersection where it entered, two vehicles, one in each lane, stopped.
National Road 4 in the Portalegre area was also temporarily closed to traffic.
Farmers block Chamuska Bridge
Several roads in the districts of Guarda, Portalegre, Beja and Santarem, including the Chamusca bridge, were closed to traffic at 9:30 a.m. due to the farmers’ protest, a source in the Republican National Guard (NGR) told Lusa.
“The Chamusca Bridge in the Santarem area, which was previously air-conditioned, was closed to traffic at 9:30 am and drivers could use the Estrada Nacional 3-9 in Vila Nova da Barquinha as an alternative, and this alternative is only for passenger cars ” said Captain João Lourenço from the GNR Public Relations Department.
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