11.   Many farmers have strongly protested the plan.

12.   On Sunday, more than a dozen farmers protested at the Agriculture Ministry by leaving dead livestock at its gates.

13.   Olive oil farmers have protested against changes.

14.   The farmers protested that in August, the government imported foreign rice for cooking, breaking its earlier promise not to import any for direct human consumption.

15.   The farmers were protesting a drop in fruit and vegetable prices they blame on an influx of produce from other European countries, especially Spain.

16.   The farmers had been protesting for the past several days, the United News of India news agency reported.

17.   The Faxi farmers had protested outside government offices, blocking office entrances and surrounding a police station.

18.   The farmers were protesting against a U-S funded government programme aimed at trying to get them to stop growing coca - the basis of cocaine.

19.   Thousands of Indonesian farmers protesting higher fertilizer prices burned vehicles and looted fertilizer storehouses, a local report said Sunday.

20.   French farmers protested Wednesday over European Commission proposals aimed at supporting beef production hit by the mad cow crisis, saying they were too timid.