According to reports issued by the police and the country's auto club, the border crossings at Doljani near the Croatian town of Metkovic and Gorica-Vinjani near Imotski have been blocked since 10:00 hrs Monday.
The protest rallies were held at the Izacic border crossing near the western Bosnian city of Bihac and at Bosanska Gradiska in northern Bosnia, but traffic ran normally.
Protesters at all border crossings insist on suspension of free trade agreements which Bosnia has concluded with its neighbours -- Croatia and Serbia-Montenegro -- until the elaboration of measures aimed at the protection of domestic production and regulation of the management of state-owned arable land. The protestors also insist on better state support for cattle breeding.
One of the leaders of the protesters at Doljani, Toni Cagalj, told reporters that farmers were embittered with the fact that food was being imported in Bosnia-Herzegovina without any restrictions, which he said devastated domestic production.
Another protest leader Ranko Bakic was quoted by the local radio as saying that the Bosnian ministerial council's chairman, Adnan Terzic, turned a dead ear to all farmers' requests for the correction of the bilateral free trade agreements which went into force at the start of this year.
The protesters announced more radical measures in the near future if their requests were not met.