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Post by pieter on Feb 19, 2020 4:04:36 GMT -7
Tractors on their way to the Hague from every corner of the Netherlands. They left home early. Colleagues of mine drove with them.The Green flag shows this farmer comes from de Achterhoek ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achterhoek ) from my province Gelderland. The flag of the Achterhoek region. This Low Saxon region in the easternmost part of the Gelderland Province, is predominantly rural, with much open space, forests and farms.
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Post by pieter on Feb 19, 2020 4:06:11 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Feb 19, 2020 4:07:35 GMT -7
The evening before/ The farmers are already on their way to the Hague
I see special police vehicles between the trucks with tractors. The police and the authorities are nervous. Thousands of trucks, tractors, vans and cars is a security risk. Tractors are powerful machines.
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Post by pieter on Feb 19, 2020 5:27:54 GMT -7
 Hundreds of farmers head for The Hague in new anti-government protestBusiness February 19, 2020 Farmers on their way to The Hague. Photo: Anjo de Haan via HH Hundreds of farmers on tractors are again heading for The Hague on Wednesday for a new protest against government policy .
The protest has been organised by militant farming organisation Farmers Defence Force, which has called on farmers not to use the motorways or drive their tractors on to the Malieveld near the Dutch parliamentary complex.
Farmers are not allowed by law to drive their tractors on motorways and several dozen have already been fined for doing so, police said on Wednesday morning.
Last year’s protests caused major delays for commuters and caused thousands of euros worth of damage to the grass. The demonstration has been called by farmers who criticise official calculations about how much nitrogen-based pollution is caused by farming, particularly livestock and dairy.
MPs are due to debate the issue on Thursday and a dairy industry think-tank Mesdag Zuivelfonds, is also due to publish its own version of the figures later that day.
The government has already allocated €350m to help farmers who want to shut down their operations plus €172m towards making livestock farming more sustainable.Read more at DutchNews.nl: |
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Post by pieter on Feb 19, 2020 6:55:41 GMT -7
The Dutch police and the Dutch army blocked roads in The Hague for public safetly and traffic control and regulations reasons.
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Post by pieter on Feb 19, 2020 7:02:00 GMT -7
The Hague today
Again you see the Dutch flag upside down, blue-white-red in staid of red-white and blue from top to bottom. This upside down flag shows the contempt of the farmers for the government, the state and the city folks. You could say that there is a Dutch farmers identity which is rural, village, small town based and against the larger administration headquarters in the 12 provincial capitals and against The Hague and arrogant city folks in their point of view. Comparable to the rural Mid West and South in the USA vs the West Coast and East Coast cities and Chicago.
Cheers,
Pieter
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Post by karl on Feb 19, 2020 10:39:42 GMT -7
Pieter
Personally it is my deep belief in this case, the vast farmers protest holds a great deal of merit. For the known world depends upon the success of agriculture for people need to eat. But, for the land area that is allowed for agriculture, must yield the most from cost, effort and time for the respective farmers to survive in this present day economy.
For as above, it would be most logical for an alliance be between government and the agriculture community to form together in solving the issue of field runoff. In the stead of passing regulations that can not be met.
Smart farming is a economical necessity and expensive with modern high speed equipment and business minded.
Karl
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