“Alqueva was made for Alentejo”. Farmers criticize possible supply to the Algarve.
Baixo Alentejo Farmers Association considers that the project follows a “political propaganda rationale” and warns of inability to respond to drought “increasingly recurring” in the South.
blue tongue: Disease killed more than 1700 animals in Portugal.
Bluetongue disease has already affected, at least, 279 cattle and sheep farms, especially in Évora and Beja, and caused the death of 1775 animals, according to data revealed by the Ministry of Agriculture.
Alqueva: Farmers at “war†with EDIA over water cuts.
Water cuts promoted by the Alqueva Infrastructure Development Company (EDIA) to more than two dozen farmers who exceeded the consumption agreed for the current agricultural year is generating strong opposition from the “men of the landâ€.
farmers: Protest notifications lead PSD deputy to accuse former minister.
As is well known, more than two dozen farmers involved in the demonstration in Vila Verde de Ficalho, which led to the cutting of the National Road (IN) 260, were notified to make statements at GNR and PSP.
Protest: Farmers from Baixo Alentejo angry at having been accused.
Twenty-two farmers, of more than two hundred, who participated in the roadblock near the Portugal/Spain border, from Vila Verde de Ficalho/Rosal de la Frontera, were notified and heard by GNR and PSP and constituted defendants, the type of crime they incur has not been specified.
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