Some 300 disgruntled farmers gathered outside the government headquarters in Zagreb before the Zoran Milanovic cabinet session on Thursday, protesting over unpaid incentives and other problems in the farming sector, and asking to be received by the prime minister and ministers of agriculture and finance to address their problems.
Dragan Dukic of the Coordinating Body of farmers associations from Slavonia and Baranja told reporters outside the government building they wanted to express their dissatisfaction with farming incentives cuts.
The farmers demand that they be paid approximately 36% of the incentives, namely HRK 700 million, by 30 June.
"We are prepared to give up 3% but we are absolutely not willing to give up 37% or 40% of the incentives," Dukic said.
He said they also wanted the government to show a sign of good will by receiving them.
"Farmers are not parasites, they are the ones producing and they want Croatian citizens to have cheaper products, but they do not want to see their family farms go out of business," Dukic told the press.
