Hog industry are in crisis in Portugal
Pig Farmers in confrontation with police forces
Confusion on the Second Ring Road with more than 300 trucks
entering Lisbon
The spokesman for the Pig industry Crisis Cabinet
said in statements to SIC Notícias, that more than "250 trucks
carrying live animals, cereals, meat and the like,"
would be entering Lisbon during the afternoon.
The high number of vehicles will congest traffic in the Second Ring Road
and North-South axis, explained João Correia
who asked people, whom this event will cause inconvenience,
to pardon the pig farmers.
At 15:30, dozens of trucks from various parts of the country,
were already entering Lisbon.
According to the same official,
the pig farmers will deliver a "gift" to the Minister, Capoulas Santos,
with a "book of instructions so that the minister
could realize what we need to do, every day in our production facilities."
João Correia also said that the sector "is in mourning"
and that they will express "displeasure by the inertia of the government,
since taking office, that somehow could lessen the calamity
that the sector is going through."
Hog farmers are protesting, because "24 000 live pigs,"
are imported from Spain, each week,
with a "further one million kilograms of processed meat" from other countries.
"We are producing only 65% of our needs.
Portugal has always had these imports.
We can not accept that our pigs within our production units,
but with great difficulties in gaining access
to the industrial units in Portugal".
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