Nearly 150,000 farmers and shepherds demonstrated in Madrid on Sunday, urging the government of Pedro Sanchez to take urgent measures to halt the rise in fuel prices and address the decline in farmers’ incomes.
In a long parade attended by tractors, horses and hunting dogs 4 kilometers away, activists carried banners that read “Livestock are in danger of extinction” and “The countryside is crying”.
farmers, approx. on At the invitation of the “Rural Alliance” platform, which says it represents one million Spanish farmers, he demonstrated in the center of the Spanish capital between the ministries of environmental transformation and agriculture.
Farmers denounced the significant increase in fuel and fertilizer prices and the drop in profits, and protested the desertification of the countryside and the government’s measures in favor of animal welfare aimed at restricting the breeding of shepherds and hunting dogs in particular.
This massive demonstration by the farmers came after a protest attended by thousands of Spaniards summoned by the far-right “Vox” party to protest the rise in food and energy prices.
Source: “AFP”
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