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Thousands of Spanish farmers on tractors blocked highways and some city streets Friday in a fourth consecutive day of protest against European Union agriculture policies and to demand measures to ...
CASTELLON, Spain (Reuters) -Spanish farmers blocked major roads with tractors and burning tyres on Wednesday, disrupting access to port terminals as anger spreads in Europe's countryside against ...
Mirroring protests across Europe, thousands of farmers in Spain staged a second day of tractor demonstrations on Wednesday across the country, blocking highways to demand changes in European Union ...
Spanish meat production in 1986 totalled 2,497,000 tons. [2] The country's farmers produced 137,000 tons of lamb and mutton, 435,000 tons of beef and veal, 765,000 tons of poultry, and 1,160,000 tons of pork. [2] With some fluctuations, these figures were representative of Spain's meat production during the 1980s. [2]
These animals are the only type of livestock in the Basque Country that must be raised in separate, specialized farms, as opposed to the mixed farms mentioned above. [1] As of 2006, there are 15 provincial Farmers' Associations in the Basque Country, each specializing in a specific breed of cattle. These associations are held accountable for ...
Marketing cooperatives are established by farmers to undertake transportation, packaging, pricing, distribution, sales and promotion of farm products (both crop and livestock). Farmers also widely rely on credit cooperatives as a source of financing for both working capital and investments.
Spanish farmers on Friday blocked streets across the country in a fourth day of protests and announced plans to gather in Madrid as they railed against the EU's environmental rules and what they ...
The livestock sector also includes wool, egg and dairy production, the livestock used for tillage, and fish farming. Animal agriculture is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions . Cows, sheep, and other ruminants digest their food by enteric fermentation , and their burps are the main source of methane emissions from land use ...