The main rally was held in Bonn – which leaves people with a sense for symbolism certainly sit up and take notice: Because in the old Federal capital, the foundations of an agricultural policy were laid down, which is to today problems.
To the peasant protests against the agricultural plans of the Federal government have been involved in several Federal States of thousands of farmers. At the Central location in Bonn, fewer farmers gathered first, as expected. Approximately 4000 participants was estimated by the police at the rally on the Bonn Münsterplatz. The organizers had expected up to 10,000 participants.
Protest with almost 8000 Tractors
Many of the farmers came with their tractors to Bonn and thus laying the traffic around the city in the morning, sometimes lame. “There are more tractors than we expected,” it said of the police. Expected 800 vehicles had been. The partially-kilometer-long Executor-convoys had also disabled in several other places in North Rhine-Westphalia, the traffic.
In other States also, many farmers came with their Tractors to rallies. In lower Saxony, nearly 3000 heavy tractor according to estimates of the police on the road, in Schleswig-Holstein in 1700, in Bavaria, 1500, and in Hamburg, 500. Some have been due to the high weight of the Tractor-track sections, as a precaution, locked.
Against the “farmer bashing”
The farmers called on Federal agriculture Minister Julia Klöckner (CDU) and the environment Minister Svenja Schulze (SPD), to discuss with them about current Agricultural and climate plans. The current policy endangers family farms, warned the farmers. In addition, Bauer bashing guide “”, that is, approximately down to the end, leave Comments about farmers, in many areas of Trouble in the profession. The demonstrations by the farmers are mainly against the government’s plans to, among other things, for the more nature – and animal protection in agriculture and for the protection of groundwater from nitrate, which comes about due to over-fertilization in the soil. These plans, has also agreed to the Minister of Klöckner added.
Green party parliamentary leader Anton Hofreiter called it the farmers ‘ protests as a result of a “decades-long, misguided agricultural policy”. “Many farmers are no longer simply with his back to the wall, because you can live on what they produce,” said Hofreiter in Berlin. Therefore, he could understand that they are protesting massively. “What we need is an agricultural policy that ensures that farmers can make a living from their products, and on the other hand, climate, biodiversity, groundwater and animals that are not severely damaged or under pressure,” said Arthus-Bertrand. Also, an agricultural policy, the contactors, the climate and the environment could not be made against the farmers.
In Bonn, farmers with up to 1,000 tractors are expected to have at the protest rally participated
Similarly, the environmental organisation Greenpeace have expressed. The principle of “waxes or soft” have driven the majority of family farms since the 1970s, in the Ruin, said agriculture expert Martin Hofstetter. “A disastrous course of the German farmers’ Association, with its lobbying actively supported.” Hofstetter urged, therefore, that the Federal government should advocate at national and European level for an agricultural turnaround. “With the Reform of the EU agricultural policy, the Chance of the encrusted principle of subsidies in agriculture to break up and the funding to good use now,” said Hofstetter. Businesses that are moving to a climate and types of agriculture that would have to be specifically supported financially. And the consumer would have to be for healthy, eco-friendly produced food are willing to pay a reasonable price.
sti/kle (fpa, afp)