Some farmers’ groups plan Prague blockade Monday

Some farmers' groups say they plan to block the main “magistrála” through-road cutting through central Prague on Monday in protest at the poor situation in Czech agriculture. The chairman of the Agricultural and Food Workers Union and a former head of the Agrarian Chamber of the Czech Republic said on Tuesday that they plan to deliver a letter to the minister of agriculture, , calling on the Czech government to pull out of the EU’s Green Deal for Europe.

The organisers say up to 1,000 tractors or other types of farm machinery could appear on the streets of the Czech capital on Monday. Other, larger farmers’ groups say they do not intend to take part in the protest.