Mérida (EFE).- Dozens of farmers from the north of Cáceres have gathered this Thursday in front of the doors of the Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development, Population and Territory, in Mérida, where they have thrown away 500 kilos of cherries to protest the ruin that lives the sector after the storms registered at the beginning of the harvest and claim direct aid.
The protest was called by La Unión de Extremadura and the Association of Valle del Jerte and Northern Regions, whose farmers have traveled to Mérida in several buses.
The regional leader of La Unión, Luis Cortés, has estimated the losses in the beer sector in the north of the province of Cáceres at almost 70 million euros and has recalled that the productions were not insured because the Agroseguro conditions are not viable for these small high mountain farmers.