Photo: FoNet/Marko DragoslavićMinister Jelena Tanasković stated that absolutely everything was fulfilled, except for the payment of 300 euros per hectare. None of our demands were met, nor were those with whom our representatives spoke, the farmers reply
"None of our demands have been met, nor have those we spoke with our representatives." It is known who represents the farmers and tomorrow we will go to the Government of Serbia, but the blockades will remain until the demands are met," Nedeljko Savić, president of the Association "Stig" from Požarevac, told the "Vremena" portal.
Farmers continued their protest and blockades throughout Serbia today.
Minister: A perfidious request
The Minister of Agriculture, Jelena Tanasković, stated that from the list of all the demands of the farmers, absolutely everything was fulfilled, except for the payment of 300 euros per hectare.
She told RTS that it is a perfidiously designed request because it is not legally feasible and that she is ready to discuss it as well, but for the next budget year.
Photo: Tanjug/Strahinja Aćimović"It is not legally feasible." It is a complete change of agricultural policy in the middle of one budget year. This is done at the end of the year for the following year. That costs Serbian agriculture 78 billion dinars, almost the entire budget before increases and allowances," said Tanasković.
She explained that it is called the European model of financing and that it implies three pillars of financing, the most important of which are direct benefits defined by law, adding that in Europe, according to such a model, they only give funds per hectare and for breeding animals that are of good quality.
"Today, we also give for cattle that are not of good quality, but are bred. And for farms with one cow. This does not exist in Europe, there is a minimum amount, if you have below that number, the system does not see you. Do we want such a model? Let's just all come to an agreement. There is no subsidy per liter of milk in Europe. Only a hectare and breeding cows. Point," said Tanasković.
Where are the blockades?
Farmers from Subotica continued to block the main road in that city, dissatisfied that not all the demands submitted to the Government of Serbia were met.
They recall the unfulfilled requests for subsidies per hectare of 300 euros, diesel without excise duty for farmers, the abolition of the obligation for drainage and the equalization of the prices of agricultural products on the European and our stock exchanges.
They blocked the underpass near the railway station, on Maksim Gorki road, which connects two parts of Subotica and is the traffic artery of the city. Paori will decide on the next steps during the day.
Photo: Tanjug/Nenad MihajlovićFarmers from the Pančevo region blocked both roads from that city to Belgrade for four hours. Vehicles are allowed to pass for an hour, and large queues form in both directions.
Farmers from the territory of Požarevac with more than 200 tractors, in cooperation with their colleagues from Rača in Kragujevac, closed the Đerdap highway near the Moravian bridge.
Currently, an alternative route via Mala Krsna and Osipaonica is passable, but tractors are deployed there as well, reports the RTS correspondent. A lane was left for the ambulance to pass.
Their demands remain the same. They want equal conditions with other farmers in Europe, a reference purchase price of wheat of 32 dinars per kilogram, as on the stock exchanges in Budapest and Paris, subsidies per hectare of 300 euros and 100 liters of blue diesel, in order to be competitors in the market where they operate.
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