The farm of another protesting farmer has been placed in passive status, and as a result, he will go on a hunger strike on Wednesday (December 17).
A farmer from the village of Klenje in Mačva received a decision by which his farm is being placed into a three-year passive status.
Nemanja Lacković received passive status and because of that, as he tells “Vreme”, he will go on a hunger strike on Wednesday (December 17) in front of the police station in Bogatić. He states that he will go there by tractor.
One in a series of cases
This is one in a series of cases in which the Ministry of Agriculture decided to prevent protesting farmers from receiving subsidies for the next few years.
Passive status was determined for him after an agricultural inspector came to inspect his farm several times in the last few months.
The last time was in early November, when the republic agricultural inspector came to the front of his house for the fourth time in the last two months.
The goal then, Lacković claimed for “Vreme”, was to strip him of his status as an active farmer, all because of his support for students.
“With a passive status, I am a dead man. I have two small children,” Lacković said at the time.
Farmers who receive passive status for their farms are denied all incentives for agricultural development, namely subsidies. Furthermore, they cannot register another agricultural farm on the same land.
What preceded this?
Lacković’s colleagues then prevented the inspector from getting out of the car, as he was without a valid warrant, and the hours-long saga ended after a call Lacković received from the BIA (Security Intelligence Agency) and a promise that the repression would stop.
Lacković claimed then that the inspector was persistently circling around the six of them because they support the students.
After that, Lacković and his colleagues were called for questioning by the police, and in the meantime, several of them received decisions on passivization.
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