Moldovan farmers demand a meeting with Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Recean, otherwise the agrarians will start mass protests across the country. This is stated in a joint statement by the National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) and the Farmers’ Power association.
“Our organisations demand an urgent meeting before Friday, November 3, with the Moldovan Prime Minister. Otherwise, farmers will start mass protests using agricultural machinery from November,” the associations said in a press release.
Moldovan farmers stressed that the representatives of the authorities working in this field do not even try to build a dialogue with them. The NFF and Farmers’ Power noted that the situation in the Moldovan agricultural sector is deteriorating day by day. The agrarians stressed that credit organisations only increase the pressure on agro-industry workers by taking away land and confiscating machinery.
“The country’s largest transnational agricultural holding company is intensively buying out the debts of agricultural producers. With the consent of the authorities, the process of destroying micro, small and medium-sized farms in the countryside is proceeding at a rapid pace. Tensions among farmers are growing against the background of the government’s inaction,” the NFF and Farmers’ Power summarised.
Earlier, Moldovan agrarians again criticised the authorities and said that representatives of farms had not received from the state neither diesel fuel nor the money promised by the government. The head of the Forța fermierilor association, Alexandru Slusari, said that none of the points put forward by Moldovan farmers’ representatives had been fulfilled by the Moldovan government.