Sitting in a small motorboat, farmer Babis Evangelinos glides over land he once cultivated on the Thessaly plain in central Greece, the nearby trunks of his fruitless almond trees submerged by floodwater.
AGRICULTURE
This past week protests and politics took center stage in Greece, as farmers – like many of their European counterparts – descended on Athens with their tractors to demand that the government do more to improve their working and living conditions.
A beekeeper stands on beehives to address the crowd, in front of the Parliament during a demonstration in central Athens on Thursday.
Beekepers Beekeepers from around Greece gathered in central Athens on Thursday to protest the problems facing their sector, including high production cost and the unfair competition from imported honey labelled as Greek.
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has been the European Union’s key mechanism for pumping funds into agricultural production and keeping it competitive since 1962.
Northern Evia experienced an awful disaster in 2021 when a wildfire charred over 50,000 hectares of land.
Greece’s agricultural population is aging. The country’s farmers have a low level of training and are largely stuck in the practices and reasonings of the past, characteristics that, in combination with others, affect the productivity and competitiveness of Greece’s domestic primary production sector.
Greek farmers honked their tractor horns in front of parliament on Wednesday after spending the night in central Athens as their protest against rising fuel and production costs stretched into a second day.
What is the problem with our agricultural economy? If it was only or mainly about money, the huge amount of funding that has flowed into Greece as income support and subsidies for investments from European funds after the country joined the European Economic Community (EEC), would have solved all its problems.
Thousands of farmers from throughout Greece drove more than 200 tractors to Athens on Tuesday, intensifying weeks of protests against increasing costs and international competition.
Scores of bright-colored tractors were parked outside Greece’s parliament Tuesday, horns blaring, as thousands of farmers angry at high production costs shifted their protests to Athens.
Protesting farmers will decide Thursday whether to continue their rallies.
Thousands of farmers from across Greece descended on Athens’ Syntagma Squar central square on Tuesday, parking their tractors before parliament in their biggest protest yet over rising costs and livelihoods destroyed by extreme weather. Police estimate at least 8,000 farmers with 130 tractors joined the protest, which echoes grievances in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland and Italy, where farmers have staged similar demonstrations.
Thousands of farmers with their tractors from across Greece have assembled before Parliament on Syntagma Square over the impact of rising energy costs, competition from abroad and recent flooding.
Greek farmers were driving into Athens with tractors on Tuesday to protest outside parliament over the impact of rising energy costs, competition from abroad and recent flooding.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, in an interview on the Greek TV channel STAR on Monday, stated that there is nothing more the government could do to meet farmers’ demands ahead of Tuesday’s farmers’ mobilization in downtown Athens.
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