Tractors in Paris to protest EU’s trade deal with South America
- 13-Jan-2026
PARIS: Dozens of tractors rolled into Paris early Tuesday as French farmers protest against the trade deal the European Union has struck with four South American countries. The long-delayed trade pact with the Mercosur bloc was approved by the EU last week and is due to be signed on Saturday. Farmers in France and several […]
Farmers warn of protest if govt fails to announce wheat rates
- 10-Apr-2025
MULTAN: Farmers in Multan are threatened to stage protest if the government fails to announce wheat prices by April 14, ARY News reported. According to Chairman of the Kisan Ittehad Khalid Khokhar, thousands of farmers, including women and children, will gather outside the Multan Press Club to demonstrate. Khokhar expressed frustration, stating that farmers had […]
UK farmers protest against ‘tractor tax’ on inheritance
- 19-Nov-2024
LONDON: Thousands of farmers protested at UK’s parliament on Tuesday, some driving tractors through central London, to demand the scrapping of an inheritance tax that they say will destroy family farms and threaten food production. The measure, dubbed the tractor tax by critics and announced in the new government’s budget last month as it sought […]
Why are Indian farmers protesting again?
- 14-Feb-2024
Indian police fired teargas on Tuesday to scatter hundreds of farmers and supporters on a protest march to the capital New Delhi to demand better prices for their produce. The latest round of farmer protests comes just months before the next general election in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to win his third […]
France: Farmers block roads, dump produce
- 25-Jan-2024
France’s farmers blocked highways and dumped crates of imported produce on Thursday, demanding urgent action on low farmgate prices, green regulation and free-trade policies as swelling protests moved closer to Paris. Farmers said the protests, now in their second week after breaking out in the southwest, would continue as long as their demands are not […]
Tractors converge on Berlin for farmers’ protest
- 15-Jan-2024
BERLIN: Farmers and their tractors rumbled towards Berlin from every corner of Germany on Sunday ahead of a giant protest demanding a rethink of plans to tax farmers more. Some 3,000 tractors, 2,000 trucks and 10,000 people were expected to fill the streets around Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate on Monday for a rally that will cap […]
Kissan Ittehad threatens countrywide shutdown, gives deadline
- 02-Oct-2022
ISLAMABAD: Kissan Ittehad chairman Khalid Hussain Batth threatened to give a countrywide shutdown call and gave a deadline to the government to fulfil the farmers’ demands, ARY News reported on Sunday. While talking to the media in Islamabad today, Khalid Hussain Batth expressed hope that the government will issue a notification after accepting the farmers’ […]
Govt is serious over legitimate demands of farmers: Sanaullah
- 01-Oct-2022
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah has termed the farmers protest without any justification, ARY News reported on Saturday. A deadlock between the government and the protesting farmers continued as another round of talks ended without any result today. “The farmers leaders were informed about the situation in a meeting,” interior minister said. “A Cabinet Committee […]
Farmers’ protest: Kissan Ittehad, govt hold second round of talks
- 30-Sep-2022
ISLAMABAD: Kissan Ittehad head Khalid Hussain has confirmed that the protesting farmers’ held a meeting with interior minister Rana Sanaullah during the second round of talks, ARY News reported on Thursday. While talking to journalists today, Khalid Hussain said that the first round of talks between the protesting farmers and the federal government had failed, […]
Police stop Shah Mahmood Qureshi from joining farmers protest
- 22-Sep-2022
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad police stopped Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Vice-Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi from participating in the ongoing farmers’ protest in the federal capital, ARY News reported on Wednesday. Shah Mahmood Qureshi told ARY News that police stopped him from joining farmers’ protest in Islamabad’s F-9 Park and they also threatened to arrest him. The PTI […]