These roads will remain closed due to farmers’ strike in Catalonia

at eight in the morning Fondarella (Pla d’Urgell) Farmers in the Lleida region are called to go out March slowly with your tractors towards the A-2 highway, which passes through the municipal area of ​​this city next to Mollerusa. This is one of the next actions agreed upon at a meeting this Tuesday night attended by about 500 producers. There will be cuts at various points of the road network on February 6. Catalan. The farmers, grouped in a transversal platform called 6F, demand, among other issues, that import conditions should be tightened Foods from non-EU countries, which are usually produced without meeting the strict requirements of the European Union (EU). They consider this unfair competition against their farms.

Apart from the Fondarella rally, there will be mobilization also Montblanc (Conca de Barbera), where the tractor meeting is scheduled at the intersection of the N-240 and C-14 roads (known as the Refacli Factory intersection). From there the protesters will leave for AP-2 Highway. and in Amposta (Montasia), where the intention is to cut off the AP-7. concentration will also remain gironaIn the Fontajou parking lot, at eight in the morning, while inside VicProtestors have been called to meet at the El Sucre fairgrounds at 9 p.m.

Blockade of the port of Tarragona

Complaints against foreign imports that circumvent European regulations, environmental, labor and, sometimes, food safety, will lead the União de Pejasos union. next 13th february To the port of Tarragona, access to which they want to block from 10:00 am to 10:00 pm. The participants in the action will move in slow motion from different cities such as Tarragona Valls (Alt Camp), El Morel (Tarragones) And Reus (back camp),

In the rest of the Catalan region, the same day on the 13th is also planned other mobilizationWhich if necessary, contemplate, Tractor units in the main Catalan cities, They protest “the dire situation of Catalan farmers in the face of excessive costs and the effects of drought”.