{"id":31870,"date":"2022-02-20T15:05:08","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T14:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=31870"},"modified":"2022-02-20T14:07:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T13:07:34","slug":"farmers-in-fier-and-berat-protest-over-rising-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/farmers-in-fier-and-berat-protest-over-rising-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers in Fier and Berat protest over rising prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers in the cities of Fier and Berat staged a protest this Sunday over the rising prices of chemical fertilizers, agricultural inputs, and fuel.<\/p>\n<p>In a protest organized at the national Berat-Fier road axis, farmers asked the Ministry of Agriculture to reconsider subsidies in this sector while also increasing funding for farmers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFertilizers are getting more and more expensive; oil is 2000 ALL per liter. Do you see these farmers over here? In 2-3 months they\u2019ll be gone to Germany. We are demanding that the government reviews its budget on agriculture or else we will all go bankrupt at once,\u201d \u2013 said one of the farmers who came out to protest.<\/p>\n<p>The Farmers United Union has submitted an official request to the Albanian government, where they\u2019re asking for more subsidies, a decrease in oil prices, and a rise in agricultural inputs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2022\/01\/26\/government-incentivizes-farmers-through-made-in-albania-scheme\/\">Government incentivizes farmers through \u2018Made in Albania\u2019 scheme<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/11\/15\/farmers-protest-with-free-baskets-of-fruits-and-vegetables-for-passers-by\/\">Farmers protest with free baskets of fruits and vegetables for passers-by<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/11\/12\/farmers-stage-protest-against-price-hikes-for-chemical-fertilizer\/\">Farmers stage protest against price hikes for chemical fertilizers<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<div class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"eneu30263\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers in the cities of Fier and Berat staged a protest this Sunday over the rising prices of chemical fertilizers, agricultural inputs, and fuel. In a protest organized at the national Berat-Fier road axis, farmers asked the Ministry of Agriculture to reconsider subsidies in this sector while also increasing funding for farmers. \u201cFertilizers are getting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":31871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[607,699,698,527,150,151,469,633,336,634],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Farmers in Fier and Berat protest over rising prices - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/farmers-in-fier-and-berat-protest-over-rising-prices\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Farmers in Fier and Berat protest over rising prices - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Farmers in the cities of Fier and Berat staged a protest this Sunday over the rising prices of chemical fertilizers, agricultural inputs, and fuel. 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