After nearly four hours of negotiations on Wednesday evening, protesting farmers reached an agreement with Agriculture Minister Petar Cobankovic and said they would remove their tractors from the roads at Ferovac, in the eastern County of Pozega-Slavonia, after a three-day blockade.
The farmers, who have been protesting in Pozega-Slavonia, Varazdin and Bjelovar-Bilogora counties over the past three days, were mainly satisfied with the agreement reached.
The main point of the agreement is that the government will pay the farmers 2,000 kuna in incentives, or 88 per cent of the maximum amount demanded.
Minister Cobankovic said that the first instalment of 900 kuna was already paid and that the second one would be paid by the end of April.
The organiser of the protest in Pozega-Slavonia County, Dragutin Dukic, said the farmers were satisfied because they got the most of out of the negotiations.
