Tractors in tow as farming protests kick off from the Czech capital.

Hello, you're listening to the Marketplace Morning Report, live from the BBC World Service.

I'm Leanna Byrne. Good morning.

In Prague today, a striking site.

Farmers are driving tractors into the city centre,

protesting about low prices they're getting for their produce and new EU farming rules.

The city authorities have urged people to work from home today.

Milos Smalley is the organizer of the protest.

We're going to Prague today to express our dissatisfaction with the setting of the European

context of agriculture as such.

Our protests are for the same thing as protests in other European countries.

That's to say, we do not like the Green Deal.

We do not like its implementation in primary agricultural production,

which is in fact extremely restrictive

and even devastating for us.

Farmer Milosh Mali there. Now Rob Cameron is our BBC correspondent in a windy Prague.

Rob what's going on there today? Well this morning several

hundred angry check farmers have driven into the city center of Prague and parked

their tractors on both lanes of the main north-south highway

that runs through the city centre right in front of the Agriculture Ministry.

To make plain their anger, that's the conditions for Czech farmers.

Now they say being made worse by the contents of the EU's green deal, which they say simply will make the costs of farming so high that

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