The tractor from Aigg Extremadura Asaja, which left Mérida a week ago, has arrived in Brussels, where participants in the march distributed bottles of wine and cans of oil as a symbolic gesture to try to «open Europe’s eyes» to the current situation in the countryside.
Therefore, the participants on the tractor have emphasized the «urgent need» for the implementation of agricultural policies that are «related to the reality of those who work the land and produce with effort and passion the highest quality food.» «The Extremaduran countryside has reached Brussels and will not back down!» declared the agricultural organization.
In just seven days, the delegation led by the president of AIPG, Extremadura Asaja, Juan Metidieri, managed to reach Brussels from Mérida to the doors of the European Parliament, completing a journey of almost 2,000 kilometers after crossing cities and towns in Spain, France, and Belgium.
Tractors, a symbol of «struggle» in rural areas, entered Luxembourg Square, in the heart of the Belgian capital, where speakers called for a gesture towards EU agricultural policies that are «suffocating the agricultural sector and the press sector, both in Extremadura and in all species,» as reported by the press.
The Extremadura delegation was composed of seven people, including farmers Pedro Llanos and Andrés Zambrano, who, along with President Metidieri, took the tractors from Mérida to Brussels «in an effort that represents the resistance, sacrifice, and dignity of the Extremadura countryside.»
Finally, Extremadura Asaja insists that «legislation cannot continue to be enacted from offices without listening to the farmer and the agricultural worker» and emphasizes that this action aims to make «Brussels hear the cry of tractors and, above all, the effort of those who have sustained Europe’s food supply.»
