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When the minister arrives in the Hausruckviertel at 1 p.m., 300 tractors will roll in, the Agrargemeinschaft Österreich (AGÖ) announced. Even more responded to the call: around 450 tractors were counted in the afternoon. However, the farmers did not come to give their “boss” a celebratory reception. “We are trying to talk to him and explain to him where the problem is,” said AGÖ spokeswoman Martina Mittermayr in advance in the OÖN interview. She expected around 1,000 participants at the “first demonstration by Austria’s farmers, which is directed against Austria’s agricultural policy and against the Minister of Agriculture.”
The fact that their demand for mandatory labeling of the origin of food is not being heard has prompted the farmers to stage a large demonstration. In addition, imports are a thorn in their side. “Everything that is imported has to meet the same standards as us,” said Mittermayr, who runs a dairy farm with her husband in Andorf (Schärding district). She complains that there is hardly anything left for farmers from the “billion-euro package for agriculture”.
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