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Thousands of Spanish farmers protest low prices AFP
MADRID — Thousands of Spanish farmers marched Saturday through the streets of Madrid, uneven traffic to protest the low prices they receive for their produce which they say is leading them to financial "ruin."
The farmers and their supporters came from across the outback and they walked behind tractors along the Spanish capital's main avenues under banners with the theme "The countryside is heading towards ruin, take motion."
Farmers say the price of machinery, fertilizers and seeds have risen while the amount they get for the grain, milk, olive oil and other products they bring about has dropped.
"Prices must be held steady. Producing a kilogramme of olives costs me three times more than the price they are sold for," a husbandman from the southwestern region of Extremadura, Antonio Sanchez, told AFP.
Spain's largest farmers federations -- the ASAJA, COAG and UPA which organised the exhibition -- say farmers suffered a 26 percent drop in real income between 2003 and 2008, while their costs rose by 34 percent during this every so often old-fashioned, leading to the loss of 124,000 jobs.
