About a thousand farmers protested yesterday across Romania, driving into the capital with their tractors and trucks to demand a drastic cut in fuel prices, unions said. “We want a 50-percent cut in oil prices for farmers,” the president of the federation of farmers’ unions Agrostar, Nicolae Stefan, told AFP.
“Now that the harvest season has started, we have no resources left,” he said, noting that farmers currently paid the pump price of 4 lei (1.13 euros, 1.63 dollars) per liter of fuel.
In Bucharest, a column of about 30 tractors and trucks paraded (photo) yesterday in front of parliament, government buildings and the agriculture ministry, where the farmers handed in their demands.
(KATHIMERINI, 09/04/2008)