Hundreds of farmers and dozens of tractors are concentrating in the vicinity of the Palace of San Esteban, headquarters of the regional government, starting point of the demonstration that will travel the streets of the center of Murcia to protest the situation of the sector and demand prices " fair. "
At the head of the demonstration, convened by COAG, UPA and Asaja, there will be an Ebro Super 55 tractor that is over 60 years old, with which the farmers intend to reveal and exemplify the old machinery with which they are still working on the field.
Specifically, the protesters will travel through the streets of the center of Murcia after a banner that reads' If the farmer is ruined and can no longer work, what will you cook in your kitchen to feed yourself? A few cents I have sold, more and more ruined, I am surprised at what is worth in the market. '
The president of COAG in San Javier, Emilio Alfonso Martínez, values in a "very positive" way the course of the day, and hopes that it serves to end the "shameful" difference that exists between the benefit that the farmer gets for his production and The price paid by the consumer.
Martínez explained that eight buses, five of them from El Mirador, have moved from the municipality.
"Here we are a chain; we all need each other, including regional and central governments," said the president of COAG, who has come to the mobilization with a wheelbarrow in which he carried oranges, carnations, lemons, celery and artichokes, and some signs in which you could read the difference between what the farmer earns and what he pays, then the consumer.
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