1.   Among the demands of the protesting farmers are requests for basic necessities, like electricity, roads, decent hospitals, potable water and agrarian reform.

2.   Papandreou recently appeared on television to reprimand the thousands of protesting farmers whose barricades had disrupted traffic and commerce throughout Greece.

3.   Protesting farmers who blocked the international bridge last week in Pharr said Thursday that they were disappointed but not surprised by the delay.

4.   Serpa told protesting farmers that the government was adamant in its determination to burn and fumigate their coca crops.

5.   Susan McAvoy, a USDA spokesperson, said the protesting farmers were invited to speak with department officials but did not accept.

6.   The protesting farmers in Johnson County dumped their milk on their own farms, mostly into waste water lagoons, Gary Roden said.

7.   The protesting farmers said they had many grievances about the process.

8.   The protesting farmers, who said they owned the land, complained that they were not informed of the expansion and that they oppose it.

9.   Protesting farmers suspended their roadblocks Thursday after resuming negotiations with the government over their objections to agricultural reforms and calls for price increases for farm products.

10.   A protesting farmer was knocked unconscious and was taken away by ambulance,.