Disgruntled Lesvos farmers to protest over foot-and-mouth

Livestock farmers connected the eastbound Aegean land of Lesvos are readying a caller protestation rally connected Monday astatine the section subdivision of the General Secretariat of the Aegean, vowing to escalate mobilizations implicit the interaction of foot-and-mouth illness and what they picture arsenic inadequate authorities support.

The determination followed a gathering past week organized by the Federation of Agricultural Associations of Lesvos. It was attended, among others, by Rizos Maroudas, a starring fig successful Greece’s nationwide farmers’ protestation movement, who expressed support for affected producers and called for coordinated unit connected the government.

Farmers are demanding afloat compensation for culled livestock, income support, state-funded herd restoration, expanded biosecurity measures and a vaccination programme to support section breeds.