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Farmers have protested in Matca village

Farmers have accused the Government's imposition of new taxes through the Tax Code and have applied for the allocation of subsidies for agriculture.

Photo: Protests of farmers in Matca. (Maria Măndiţa).

Articol de Maria Măndiţă, Galaţi, 03 Februarie 2013, 11:11

A few dozen of vegetable growers in Matca village took part in an action of protest in front of City Hall.

The farmers rebuke the Government imposition of additional duties.

People have listened to the speeches of many farmers, climb on a car platform around which there were posters with the following messages: "we want special programs for local markets", "officials of the institutions you are paying, consider solutions!".

People expressed grievances regarding the restriction of the measure relating to the granting of subsidies 1.41 European subsistence farms, but also on new taxes to pay them, according to the provisions of the Tax Code.

Photo: Protests of farmers in Matca. (Maria Măndiţa)

According to Mircea Croitoru, Chairman of the Group of Producers Vegetable-Fruit Matca , vegetables growers sky program resumption as 1.41, halting, by State, of the imports of vegetables in the period when domestic production is at maximum capacity, and the eradication of the intermediaries in the market.

Photo: Greenhouses from Matca. (Maria Măndiţa)

At the same time, vegetable growers sky financial aid allocation, as in other European countries, for the production of vegetables, by awarding grants for the heating of glasshouses, for diesel and for the foil necessary glasshouses.

Mircea Croitoru said that if the State won't give requests of farmers , is willing to continue the protests until Brussels, including the hunger strike.

Photo: Production in the greenhouses of Matca. (Maria Măndiţa)


Translated by Denisse-Meda Bucura

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