19 July 2016
MEPSO, are advising farmers that they should avoid the use of agricultural machinery along routes where power lines of the power transmission network run, and security corridors, and especially not to use powerful tractor machinery, or any other agricultural machinery underneath power cables. The company recommends that farmers do not install piping systems for irrigation […]
12 February 2016
Greek farmers will close the border crossing Bogorodica, vehicles won’t be able to cross from 12:00 to 14:00 and 19:00 to 23:00. Thousands of farmers from 68 blocks throughout Greece today will meet in Athens for a protest scheduled for 18:00 tonight. At the port of Piraeus this morning more than 2,000 farmers arrived from […]
1 February 2016
Today, Greek farmers will continue blocking the Macedonian-Greek border, at three different crossings: Bogorodica, Medzitlija and Dojran. The border crossing at Bogorodica will be blocked today from 11:00 to 13:00 and from 17:00 to 20:00, Dojran will be closed from 9:00 to 14:00 and 18:00 to 20:00 Macedonian time, while Medzitlija will face a blockade […]
28 January 2016
Greek farmers today will “occupy” Thessaloniki. Protests from the road blockades will move to the centre of Thessaloniki, where tonight the great Fair of Agriculture “Agrotiki” opens. This way Farmers can demonstrate their anger and dissatisfaction with the government’s decisions not to deviate from the implementation of the Agreement on pension and health insurance and new […]
26 January 2016
Today Greek farmers will again be blocking the border crossings Bogorodica and Dojran. The blockade will start from 12:00 to 14:00 local time, in other words from 11:00 to 13:00 Macedonian time. Other than the Macedonian border, farmers are also blocking border crossings from Greece – Albania, and Greece – Bulgaria. The worst situation at […]
25 January 2016
It is possible that Greek farmers today intend to block the border crossing at Dojran from 11:00-13:00 Macedonian time. According to announcements from the farmers, from the area surrounding Kilkis, they plan either to block the motorway Thessaloniki – Petrich, or block the border crossing Dojran – Dojrani. In the area of Kilkis, farmers have […]
23 January 2016
Traffic movement through the motorways in Greece in the coming days will be difficult due to a mass strike organized by disgruntled Greek farmers. Farmers are dissatisfied with the measures of the Greek government for pensions, health insurance and the abolishment of benefits. Over 10,000 farmers with their tractors will be protesting on motorways throughout […]
8 August 2015
The Ministry of Finance gave 227 million denari in subsidies to 8711 farmers. The subsidies were mostly given to milk producers. For the production and sale of sheep, cow and goat milk, 8562 farmers received 206 million denari. The Ministry has paid 1.4 million denari to support the production of garden produce in green houses […]
2 July 2015
USAID and the Ministry of Agriculture will jointly fund a mechanism for partial credit guarantees, which would enable increased lending to individual farmers. In the next ten years, agricultural loans totaling 20 million dollars will be guaranteed. Agreement for Cooperation between the Government and the US Agency for International Development for bank guarantees for agriculture […]
1 March 2015
Farmers from all over Macedonia today in Bitola formed a new agricultural association with pretensions of trade union under the name “Republic trade union association for agricultural salvation.” President of the association is Nikolche Boshevski, a farmer from the village of Novaci, who handles more than 20 hectares of agricultural land and is one of […]
