1. On land, French farmers are famous, or infamous, for their propensity to strike or dump crops to demand more subsidies. 2. The farmers might dump rotten fruit or vegetables into the street, demanding more subsidies. 3. Their employers often demand subsidies. 4. Tobacco growers around the city of Salta are now threatening to block roads to demand government subsidies. 5. Cotton farmers carried out sporadic blockades of highways across central and northern Greece Thursday to demand higher subsidies for their crops. 6. Dozens of protesting cotton farmers blocked a busy highway in northern Greece for more than one hour Wednesday to demand higher subsidies from the government, police said. 7. Disgruntled cotton farmers began setting up road blocks on secondary roads in northern Greece on Friday to demand higher subsidies for their crops. 8. Disgruntled cotton farmers shut down a border crossing with Bulgaria on Friday and others set up road blocks around northern Greece to demand higher subsidies for their crops. 9. Farmers converge on Athens for demonstration to demand subsidies, 10. Farmers mainly demanding higher subsidies have been blocking highways on near daily basis since mid-January. |
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