CRO PEASANTS DEMAND HIGHER PROTECTIVE PRICE OF WHEAT

ZAGREB, July 10 (Hina) - Croatian peasants expressed dissatisfaction with the protective price of wheat of 90 lipa (26 German pfenings) per kilo which the government offered them and are asking for 1,30 kunas (37 pfenings) per kilo. Head of the Croatian Peasants' Centre (an association within the Croatian Peasants' Party , HSS), Petar Jurisic, said that their protest to the Croatian Agriculture Minister Matej Jankovic because of the low protective price had ended with no results. The Centre would suggest to the producers to store as much wheat as possible and wait for a change in the price, Jurisic said. "As wheat by the price of 90 lipa per kilo is the cheapest fodder for the Croatian peasant, he will feed his cattle with it rather than market it (export is forbidden), so because of the lack of wheat on the market, we will be forced to import wheat at a high price of 1,5 kunas," HSS representative in the Croatian Parliament, Josip Pankretic, said. "Such politics cripple the consumers and producers," Pankretic said. (hina) lm jn 101853 MET jul 96