OSIJEK, June 30 (Hina) - The association of farmers from Slavonija and Baranja (eastern Croatia) at 10AM Saturday blocked roads protesting over conditions for the purchase of this year's wheat crop. Association secretary Stanko
Zdravcevic told reporters the protests were staged because of a lack of understanding for farmers' demands that wheat purchase price amounts to 1.20 kuna per kilogram and that the main buyer be the mill and bakery industry, without a third-party. According to Zdravcevic, the protests are staged in Vukovar-Srijem, Osijek-Baranja, Koprivnica-Krizevci and Bjelovar-Bilogora counties. He added he had no information on the response in Slavonski Brod-Posavina county and Ivanic Grad. Zdravcevic said he was invited to a meeting with representatives of the Croatian Agriculture Ministry and wheat buyers in the Osijek Chamber of Commerce at 9AM. Even though president of the association Antun Laslo said he wo
OSIJEK, June 30 (Hina) - The association of farmers from Slavonija
and Baranja (eastern Croatia) at 10AM Saturday blocked roads
protesting over conditions for the purchase of this year's wheat
crop.
Association secretary Stanko Zdravcevic told reporters the
protests were staged because of a lack of understanding for
farmers' demands that wheat purchase price amounts to 1.20 kuna per
kilogram and that the main buyer be the mill and bakery industry,
without a third-party.
According to Zdravcevic, the protests are staged in Vukovar-
Srijem, Osijek-Baranja, Koprivnica-Krizevci and Bjelovar-
Bilogora counties. He added he had no information on the response in
Slavonski Brod-Posavina county and Ivanic Grad.
Zdravcevic said he was invited to a meeting with representatives of
the Croatian Agriculture Ministry and wheat buyers in the Osijek
Chamber of Commerce at 9AM.
Even though president of the association Antun Laslo said he would
only hold talks at the protest site, a farmers' delegation headed to
Osijek.
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