The civil movement of farmers of San Miguel in the Azores canceled a concentration planned for Thursday and scheduled a meeting for that day to decide on new military action.
The meeting, originally scheduled for Thursday at a time yet to be determined, has been canceled and San Miguel farmers will meet at 8 p.m. local time (9 p.m. in Lisbon) in San Miguel parish, according to group spokesman Fernando Mota. Covoada in the municipality of Ponta Delgada, “to decide what forms of struggle should be carried out.”
At the meeting, farmers present will decide “what they want to do and what the next fighting will be,” the person in charge told the Lusa news agency on Wednesday.
Last Thursday, at the end of a slow march in which “about 400” farm vehicles, including tractors, vans and cars, took part, the San Miguel Farmers’ Civic Movement decided to hold a new concentration on Thursday.
This initiative will serve to convey to the sector the status of the demands after the protest ended without the expected delivery of the manifesto to the leadership of the San Miguel Agricultural Association.
Last week’s protest began around 10:30 local time (11:30 in Lisbon) at the headquarters of the Associação de Jovens Agricultores Micaelenses in Arrifes (Ponta Delgada) and ended after 14:30 local time at the door of the San Agricultural Association -Miguel (in Santana, Rabo de Peixe, municipality of Ribeira Grande).
The farmers initially planned to hand over a manifesto with their demands to the president of the Agricultural Association of San Miguel and the Agricultural Federation of the Azores, Jorge Rita, but they did not do so, saying the leader was not defending the class.
In a list of demands that Lusa had access to, San Miguel farmers are asking, among other measures, for an extension of the application deadline “to directly support youth to reduce the additional costs of social security payments”, “to directly support the additional costs of increasing interest rates rates”, as well as supporting the digital transition and innovations envisaged in the Plan for Recovery and Resilience (PRR) to include automated animal feeding and milking systems.
Other demands include lower taxes on petroleum products and agricultural diesel fuel, lower feed prices, and the use of a simplex system in licensing farms and allowing logging.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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