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Hello, I'm Guy Hedgeko and welcome to Business Daily, where we're looking at protests which have been staged by farmers across Europe

and elsewhere in recent weeks.

France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and Eastern European countries

have all seen farmers airing their grievances

by driving their tractors into towns and cities and blocking roads.

There have also been similar demonstrations far beyond Europe in India.

Today we're looking at what is driving these protests

and how some grievances are uniting farmers from different countries

while others are dividing them.

That's on Business Daily from the World Service.

I'm on a road an hour and a half's drive northwest of Madrid in central Spain's rural heartland.

And farmers are driving their tractors in convoy along this road.

This is one of dozens of protests recently by farmers here in Spain.

And the mood here is one of anger, frustration, and even desperation.

This A. C.B. Soto represents the local farmer's union.

It has a movement these days, spontaneous. Cabe Soto represents the local farmers' union.

A spontaneous movement has started in recent days. It's a positive movement which a lot of people have joined. It looks as if the farming sector has woken up. We're angry, we're fed up

because bit by bit we've been pushed into a corner.

We've been cornered to such an extent that we've reached a point where it's a problem of financial

solvency. There are farms and families that have no money. We can't be selling produce

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