Farmers are protesting production costs and want guaranteed production prices that would cover them – a measure that would flout European Union regulations – as well as subsidized electricity prices, exemption from value-added tax, and no tariff-free imports of produce from regions with whom the EU has signed trade agreements. They also demand an immediate doubling of pensions, and, protesting delays in subsidy payments following the farm subsidies scandal, they demand that the government reverse its decision, imposed by the EU, to essentially scrap subsidies disbursement agency OPEKEPE and shift responsibility to the independent tax authority AADE. Farmers are also against a system for recording production and shipments online.

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