Today marks the 16th day of farmers\u2019 protests across Serbia. Dissatisfied milk producers are blocking more than 80 road sections in the country, joined by crop farmers, livestock breeders and fruit growers. A new blockade is also planned near Konarevo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All roads leading to Kraljevo have been closed. It is impossible to either enter or leave the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Only ambulances are being allowed to pass. Police vehicles are positioned on both sides of the blockade, N1 reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNo one here is doing well, people are losing money, they have no turnover \u2013 that\u2019s why no one is addressing us, they have no understanding. We were at negotiations, they mocked us there, told stories, they were not at all willing to solve the problem\u2026 We will not give up, we have nowhere to go back, this has hit rock bottom,\u201d farmer Boban Mijailovi\u0107 told N1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since Aleksandar Martinovi\u0107, and then Dragan Glamo\u010di\u0107, took office as agriculture minister, everything has been getting worse and worse, Mijailovi\u0107 states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIf there is reason and wisdom among them, they should turn to our producers. I guarantee and claim that we still have the healthiest food in the region, and in Europe. We do not feed livestock with GMO feed, yet we import such food. Our great-grandfathers, grandfathers and fathers preserved our hearths and we will fight for that. We are only asking to be paid and to live as we deserve from our work,\u201d Mijailovi\u0107 said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Farmer from Kraljevo: \u201cWe are on the very edge of the abyss\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe decided on a blockade here in order to radicalize our protest, because as you can see we have received no response from the Ministry of Agriculture. We sent an email to the Government of Serbia, but we have no response from them either,\u201d farmer Predrag Veljkovi\u0107 from the vicinity of Kraljevo told N1, adding that the \u201cGovernment forced us into this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Veljkovi\u0107 states that a police inspector in Kraljevo was writing down license plates of vehicles at the blockade this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe situation has boiled over and we are on the very edge of the abyss, everything the ministry has done in recent years, especially Dragan Glamo\u010di\u0107 who is the alpha and omega of Serbian agriculture, together with Risti\u010devi\u0107, over the past fourteen years \u2013 they have literally brought us to beggary and that is why there is such anger in Serbian agriculture,\u201d Veljkovi\u0107 told N1 at the blockade in Konarevo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe cannot work for free, we have families, children\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Farmer Sre\u0107ko Rankovi\u0107 from the vicinity of Gru\u017ea told FoNet that during the blockade, which is passing without incidents, ambulances, emergency interventions and vehicles with children are being allowed to pass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe will see whether there will be any meetings with the Government, since it seems that the Ministry of Agriculture has no understanding for our demands,\u201d Rankovi\u0107 said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He emphasizes that none of the farmers are to blame for the fact that they have reached a situation in which their full-day work does not pay off, as through knowledge and labor they have improved production and are striving to develop to the greatest possible capacity and scope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe least of all want what is happening today, to be here in the street and not doing our job. People want to go to the fields, to do their work. We cannot work for free and have our future be uncertain. We have families, children \u2013 we need to know where we stand,\u201d Rankovi\u0107 said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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