Efe | Europa Press
Updated Tuesday, February 6, 2024-09:15
The tractors took to the roads today to protest the crisis in the sector and the agricultural policies of the European Union, demonstrations that will continue throughout the day and even tomorrow in some areas.
These mobilizations are part of the calendar of protests planned throughout Spain, which the main agricultural organizations decided to maintain last Friday, after the meeting they held with the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas.
Aragon
Hundreds of tractors keep
the A-2 highway blocked
as it passes through the Zaragoza town of
La Almunia de Doña Godina
and the
accesses to Mercazaragoza
, on the Cogullada highway, without significant incidents having been recorded so far, reports Efe.
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An action that occurs within the framework of the protests initiated in recent days by farmers throughout the country in order to urge
direct policies that improve the situation in the sector.
Citizen Security and Traffic personnel from the Civil Guard are in the area to regulate the roads affected by the protest and avoid possible incidents that affect security.
According to sources from the Armed Institute, who can specify the
kilometers of highway affected
, the tractor drivers take over on the road axis, with entrances and exits from service areas
For this Tuesday, other tractor rallies are organized in
different parts of Aragon
, where hundreds of farmers have gathered in various locations in their respective towns to start a protest that will affect several Aragonese roads.
Madrid's community
Early this morning, several dozen tractors cut off the
Madrid highway M-600 in Sevilla la Nueva
in
the direction of the M-501 highway
, the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) has reported.
It is the only Madrid road closed at 9:00 a.m., according to the source, although he has specified that in the province of Toledo from the first hour the farmers have closed the A-4 roads in Madridejos, towards Madrid, the A-42 in Illescas, and the A-5 in Casarrubio del Monte.
Valencian Community
A demonstration of farmers with tractors has
blocked the northern access route to Valencia and the CV-30
since the early hours of this Tuesday morning, as well as the
CV-50 in L'Alcúdia and the A-3 near Cheste
, although in the latter a lane has already been opened.
On the A-3, the tractor unit has completely cut off the road but later a lane has been opened for traffic and at around 8:00 a.m. there is a
delay of between 1.5 and 2 kilometers
, according to the General Directorate of Traffic. to Eph.
In the accesses to the Valencian capital, the northern ring road has been cut off and the CV-30 at its entrance to the city has had to be cut off so that no more vehicles can access and those that have been stranded can be removed.
The CV-50 has also been closed to traffic in both directions near L'Alcúdia due to a demonstration by farmers on tractors, according to the DGT.
According to the Traffic Management Center of the Valencia City Council, at 7 in the morning the entrance through the CV-30 and the northern ring road was blocked and a few minutes later the exit through this road, at the height of Joan XXIII Avenue .
These cuts have caused the
collapse of the transversal access roads to the city,
according to the Management Center on social networks.
On the
main roads of Alicante and Castellón there have been no incidents
of this type at the moment, according to the DGT.
These tractors do not correspond to those called by the main agricultural organizations (AVA-Asaja, Asaja Alicante, La Unió, CCPV-COAG and UPA-PV).
This Wednesday a rally is called in the port of Castellón, which will be followed by mobilizations in the province of Alicante on February 12, the port of Castellón on the 15th and the port of València on February 22.
Andalusia
Farmer protests
organized through social networks have caused delays on the
A-4 highway near Écija (Seville)
and on the
A-92
in various parts of the
province of Granada
since the early hours of this Tuesday, February 6
, as well as as in
Malaga capital,
where the
accesses
from San Andrés and Alameda de Colón to the Port of Malaga have been
blocked.
According to the website of the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT), consulted by Europa Press, traffic
is at red level
due to a tractor unit between kilometers 452 to 458 near
Écija
(Seville), at kilometer 203 in the A-92 in
Venta Nueva
(Granada) and on the A-92G near
Santa Fe
and
Moraleda de Zafayona
, also in the province of
Granada.
In the province of Malaga, demonstrators with tractors positioned themselves in the vicinity of the
port of Malaga during the early hours of the morning and blocked
the access to the port area with tires, some of which they set on fire.
After this, the Local Police have been forced to cut off traffic on the coastal axis and Alameda de Colón and only the Paseo del Parque remains open.
Detentions
are occurring
due to the cutting of the coastal axis due to the protest in areas such as Paseo Marítimo Pablo Picasso towards the center, Paseo del Parque towards the center, Esplanade de la Estación towards the south and Paseo de Reding towards the center.
Catalonia
Farmers from different regions of Catalonia have started gatherings at 8:00 a.m.
on various roads and points in Catalonia
, in some cases with their tractors, in protest against the crisis in the sector and against the EU's agricultural policies, mobilizations that will continue throughout the day and even tomorrow in some areas.
Various agricultural organizations have called for concentrations of farmers in points such as the city of
Girona, Vic and Sant Fruitós del Bages, in central Catalonia, in Fondarella
(
Lleida
) or
Mora d'Ebre, Vila-rodona and Montblanc, in Tarragona
, from where They plan to cut and
block some of the main arteries
of the community.
In
Gerona,
the farmers have gathered since 8:00 in the morning in the parking lot of the Fontajau pavilion, from where they plan to circulate through the city center and then head to the AP-7 motorway and the National II.
In
Montblanc
(Tarragona) the farmers plan to cut the AP-2 and the N-240 starting at 9:00 am and also in this province, in Mora d'Ebre, more than fifty tractors will make slow marches along the C-12 and the N-420.
The farmers of
Alt Urgell and Cerdanya
have also been called to block the N-145 and N-260 with their tractors, at the
Seu d'Urgell
roundabout (Lleida), at the access to Andorra.
Around noon, the farmers of the Ebro Lands have also been called to gather in L'Aldea (Tarragona)
These mobilizations are part of the calendar of protests planned throughout Spain, which the main agricultural organizations decided to maintain last Friday, after the meeting they held with the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas.
The Rioja
The tractors took to the Rioja roads this Tuesday and have
blocked traffic in the main accesses to Logroño
since early in the morning and some are heading towards Mercarioja, according to Efe.
There are also tractors in the areas of the Riojan municipalities of
Haro, Briones, Calahorra and Alfaro and
road closures
are planned , such as the N-232
, and they have not been ruled out on the Basque-Aragonese highway AP-68.
Some
urban buses in Logroño have difficulties
traveling on their usual routes.
The Civil Guard and the different Local Police are in the affected areas and are trying to regulate traffic.
This tractor is produced
without the authorization of the Government Delegation
in La Roja, which already said this Monday that, given the announcement of a mobilization of farmers for this Tuesday, no communication had been received in this regard, while it has been formalized the one requested by different organizations for February 13.
He also pointed out that traffic cuts are not authorized and that tractors, to access urban centers, must comply with current traffic regulations and the instructions given to them by the State security forces and bodies and local police.
Navarre
Since the early hours of this Tuesday, Navarrese farmers have been mobilizing with their tractors to demand changes in environmental regulatory requirements and more
flexibility in the Common Agricultural Policy
(CAP) along different roads in the Foral Community, which is causing some traffic problems.
The
mobilization is widespread,
with a special impact on
strategic points of the PA30
(Ronda de Pamplona), reports the Foral Police, which indicates that there is a concentration of heavy vehicles and specific cuts at roundabouts in Talluntxe, Berriozar, Itaroa, Olaz and Artica.
Likewise, it points out that incidents have been recorded in
access to towns such as Tafalla, Lumbier
or
Estella-Lizarra.
The Foral Police recommends moving forward when necessary and
opting for alternative routes on the secondary network
. At the same time, patience and understanding are requested for possible delays caused by the slow circulation of agricultural vehicles and specific cuts in the main network.
The tractor units have been called by individual farmers through a
WhatsApp group.
UAGN, EHNE and UCAN do not participate in these mobilizations, entities that are in contact to organize a calendar of medium-term mobilizations, aimed at holding the European elections on June 9, the agricultural unions have told Efe.
At the national level, ASAJA, COAG and UPA have announced mobilizations, which will take place first in the provinces, and then one
in Madrid towards the month of May.
Castile and León
The Valladolid capital woke up this Tuesday, February 6, with concentrations of tractors at the
entrances to the San Cristóbal and Mercaolid industrial estates
"making entry difficult" to them, according to data provided by Civil Protection and collected by Europa Press.
Civil Protection has confirmed the presence of the National Police and Municipal Police at both points and recommends that, if you have to go to these locations, you must do so in advance.
The same sources had already predicted for the first hours of the day this Tuesday
"very slow traffic"
due to the presence of tractors at the entrances to industrial estates, at any point on VA-20, in Mercaolid and at the entrances to the city on the N-122, N-601, A-610 and VA-140 and has recommended using VA-30 and A-62.
Castilla la Mancha
The first road closures in Castilla-La Mancha due to protests called by farmers are already noticeable, with
several roads affected.
From 7:45 a.m., a demonstration interrupted traffic on the
A-4 highway that connects Madrid with Córdoba
, specifically at
kilometer 119 in the town of Madridejos
and in the direction of Madrid.
In the case of the A-42, at kilometer 35, on the border with Madrid, the demonstration, according to the General Directorate of Traffic, affects the municipality of
Veredilla, with traffic interrupted in the decreasing direction towards Madrid.
In the
capital Toledo
, where the protest called on farmers to "collapse" the Industrial Estate, it has already achieved its purpose in the connection between Santa Bárbara and this neighborhood on the outskirts of the city, the most populated and where the hospital is located.
Some buses that completed this transit, with patients on their way to the emergency room, have had to
turn around to find an alternative route.
In Tomelloso, dozens of tractors are already prepared with the intention of marching towards Manzanares
; while in
Cuenca, several columns called at 10:00 in the commercial center on Avenida de Madrid
on the outskirts of the city are already heading towards the meeting point, like the one that passed around 8:30 through Carboneras de Guadazaón.
The
A-5 in Maqueda
, where the influx of tractors had also been called, also presents, according to the DGT, "public disorder" due to the large number of farmers giving rise to the protest.