Seeds of discontent: Why European farmers are taking their anger to the streets
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From Paris to Berlin, from Warsaw to Brussels, this week farmers stepped up their protests against the European Green Deal and hikes in diesel taxes, all against a backdrop of inflation, climate change and competition from Ukrainian imports. Tractors have been blocking highways and sending a message to governments as well as the public: "the people who feed you are having trouble feeding themselves". We speak to a cereal grower about the agricultural sector's challenges and the reasons behind the protests.
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