Farmers from Vojvodina have arrived in Novi Sad, in front of the Banovina complex where the Government and Assembly of Vojvodina are located on Mihajla Pupina Boulevard.
Traffic on Mihajla Pupina Boulevard is functioning up to the intersection with Žarka Zrenjanina Street, and from that intersection toward the Varadinski Bridge, traffic is blocked.
They gathered here because, as they say, they did not receive any subsidies, while corn producers had an extremely bad year due to the dry season.
Mileta Slankamenac from the Initiative for the Salvation of Serbian Farmers says that this is a warning protest.
“We are only here today. We will see what we will do and how we will proceed with the associations we are coordinating with. Yesterday the Minister of Agriculture said that a hundred tractors do not mean anything to him. We will see how much public support there will be today,” Slankamenac said.
Goran Filipović, the president of IZOPS, said that they are giving the state 10 days to fulfill their demands or the protest will spread to more cities.
“After today’s protest, we give the state a deadline of 10 days to fulfill our demands. Otherwise, protests will follow in other cities and will last longer,” says Filipović, noting that they do not plan to block roads, but rather to protest in front of the institutions from which they demand that they do their job,” he said, as reported by Agroklub.
The drought has destroyed 50 to 100 percent of the corn and soybean harvest, as well as other crops and fruits, and as they point out, the Ministry of Agriculture is not responding.
They will remain in the center of Novi Sad today, and depending on the agreement with the authorities, or if it is absent, they will spread the protests to other cities in the coming days. They gave the state a deadline of ten days to respond to their demands.
Farmers from six associations are protesting because the state has not fulfilled their demands regarding fuel, loans, the stock exchange, and debts to the PIO fund.
To the unfulfilled demands from previous agreements with the Ministry of Agriculture, they have added the demand for aid of 300 euros per hectare for registered field and fruit crops in the e-agrar system.
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