The famers taking part in the protest staged by the Association “Force of Farmers”, who are from 20 districts, took their agricultural machines to 15 points in the country. In a press release, the protest organizers said that they are ready to provide any information about the location of the machines. The farmers warned that if their regional protests are ignored, they will take their agricultural machines to the center of Chisinau, IPN reports.

Protesters’ demands are the same: to defer their payments to creditors without calculating penalties, to provide tax concessions to them, in particular to enable them to use the VAT from the account to pay taxes and contributions, and to persuade the foreign partners to offer subsidies to the farmers affected by drought.

Moreover, the executive director of the Association “Force of Farmers” Alexandru Slusari asks that the agreements between the creditors and farmers should be guaranteed by a legal document, not only verbally as the minister of agriculture proposed earlier. Alexandru Slusari made public the discussion between a farmer and an importer of fertilizers in which the latter demands that the debts should be cleared by October 1. But the Minister of Agriculture Vladimir Bolea earlier assured that farmers’ debts will be rescheduled following agreements with banks, importers of fertilizers and representatives of tax inspectorates.

According to the Association “Force of Farmers”, this year’s severe drought compromised 80-90% of the corn harvest and 60-70% of the sunflower and sugar beet harvests and the small and medium-sized farmers risk going bankrupt if they are not supported by the state.