21.   Protesting farmers continued blockading roads in Poland on Friday despite new government plans to help boost prices for their products and spend more money on agriculture programs this year.

22.   Protesting Polish farmers blocked a border crossing with Germany on Friday to demand a ban on food imports.

23.   Protesting farmers blockaded roads and government offices in several Polish towns Tuesday in a nationwide demonstration against grain imports and low prices.

24.   Protesting farmers dug up and planted crops on a golf course they claimed had been wrongly taken away from them in a land deal, a newspaper reported Tuesday.

25.   Protesting farmers currently in Sacaba insist they will continue their efforts to take over the market.

26.   Protesting farmers have also occupied government and airport buildings.

27.   State media often carry reports of powerful local officials hiring thugs to beat or even kill protesting farmers or using their influence to have them arrested and imprisoned.

28.   The government already has bought some Polish pork and other products at higher-than-market prices in a concession to the protesting farmers.

29.   The government on Sunday resumed talks with protesting farmers who demand improvement of their impoverished situation, but the farmers were not expecting a quick agreement.

30.   The Polish government on Wednesday demanded that protesting farmers dismantle roadblocks as a condition for resuming stalled talks on agriculture reforms.