Piles of firewood, gazebos and tables set up: farmers and breeders stationed at the port of Olbia ready to continue the protest for another week. Meanwhile, this morning, the tractors (over thirty) paraded through the city again, this time crossing Via Roma and heading straight towards the "Costa Smeralda" airport.
«We remain to make our voice heard as everyone is doing at a national level and we are still waiting for some politician to show up – says the farmer Francesco Geromino, representative of the spontaneous committee – The exemption from agricultural Irpef is a drop in the sea , we have to get them to lower the fuel otherwise we will no longer be able to work, all the raw materials have skyrocketed."
Incentives for buyers of products and vaccines against blue tongue, the priority issues of the protest.
«They must facilitate those who come to buy from us, not kill them with transport costs - continues Geromino - In two months there will be the Cattle Fair in Bastia Umbra, we risk not going because we don't have the vaccines. We are the second region in Italy for the production of beef calves, in addition to all the other products, we have no problems selling them. We have problems because we are an island and no one does anything to help us reduce costs."