KOPRIVNICA KOPRIVNICA, June 26 (Hina) - Farmers in Koprivnica-Krizevci County on Saturday held a protest rally on the fairground in Koprivnica (50 kilometres north-east of Zagreb). Shortly after 11 a.m. over a hundred tractors,
escorted by police, passed through streets of this town. At the protest, Ivan Kolar, the head of the Croatian Farmers' Association which organised today's demonstrations in several Croatian counties, reiterated peasants' demands. They insist on the ban on the import of such agricultural products which have been produced in sufficient amounts by farmers in the country. They demand the immediate payment of money for last year's crops already given to the state as well as 1.32 kuna per kilogram of wheat as the purchase price. Demonstration will last as long as the Government fails to meet farmers' demands, they said. Kolar also announced a possibility that peasants come with pig
KOPRIVNICA, June 26 (Hina) - Farmers in Koprivnica-Krizevci County
on Saturday held a protest rally on the fairground in Koprivnica (50
kilometres north-east of Zagreb).
Shortly after 11 a.m. over a hundred tractors, escorted by police,
passed through streets of this town.
At the protest, Ivan Kolar, the head of the Croatian Farmers'
Association which organised today's demonstrations in several
Croatian counties, reiterated peasants' demands.
They insist on the ban on the import of such agricultural products
which have been produced in sufficient amounts by farmers in the
country. They demand the immediate payment of money for last year's
crops already given to the state as well as 1.32 kuna per kilogram of
wheat as the purchase price.
Demonstration will last as long as the Government fails to meet
farmers' demands, they said.
Kolar also announced a possibility that peasants come with pigs,
cows and hens in St Marc's Square in the downtown Zagreb during
their action.
After the protest on the fairground in Koprivnica farmers, on over
100 tractors and escorted by the police headed toward Djurdjevac
and some of them toward the Drava River valley and the Hungarian
border.
In the Saturday morning, no road in this county was blocked.
(hina) ms