Protesting Greek farmers line roads around national highway with hundreds of tractors

Record ID: 1952254

  • Title: Protesting Greek farmers line roads around national highway with hundreds of tractors
  • Date: 24th January 2025
  • Summary:  KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA (JANUARY 24, 2025) (REUTERS) (MUTE) DRONE FOOTAGE SHOWING PALESTINIANS PERFORMING FRIDAY PRAYERS IN THE RUINS OF MOHAMMED NASSERDIN AL-ALBANI MOSQUE, ON THE FIRST FRIDAY PRAYERS FOLLOWING A CEASEFIRE BETWEEN ISRAEL AND HAMAS / PEOPLE WALKING NEAR THE DAMAGED MOSQUE VARIOUS OF DRONE FOOTAGE SHOWING PALESTINIANS PERFORMING FRIDAY PRAYERS IN THE RUINS OF TH
  • Embargoed: 7th February 2025 16:13
  • Keywords: CLIMATE CHANGE COSTS ENERGY FARMERS GREECE PROTESTS
  • Location: KARDITSA, GREECE
  • City: KARDITSA, GREECE
  • Country: Greece
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Europe,Civil Unrest
  • Reuters ID: LVA001603524012025RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Protesting Greek farmers struggling with high production costs and the impact of climate change lined junctions around the country’s national highway with hundreds of tractors on Friday (January 24) near the northern town of Karditsa, threatening to block the main thoroughfare which links the north to the south of the country.
    Greek crops, from chestnuts to olive oil and cotton, have been hit by soaring temperatures, floods and wildfires in recent years, a stark example of how extreme weather which scientists link to climate change is impacting farming across southern Europe.
    On Friday Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis offered farmers to settle billions of euros in bad loans to help the sector, which would benefit some 21,000 farmers. He also promised to reform a compensation scheme for farmers when their livestock and crops are damaged by natural disasters.
    Greece has also offered a tax rebate on agricultural diesel and cut a sales tax for the purchase of fertilisers and machinery. It has paid millions of euros in recent years to compensate farmers for crops lost to devastating floods or a lack of rain.
    But farmers, who started the protests on Thursday (January 23) say the measures are not enough amid rising production costs, including energy, and competition from imported produce. They have threatened to block main roads across the mainland, which would cause traffic chaos and threaten the movement of goods.
    (Production: Giannis Floulis, Deborah Kyvrikosaios)
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