Farmers in tractors blocked amotorway tollbooth at Brescia on Wednesday, creating major traffic disruptions in the southern part of the Lombardy city.
Like many other farmers across Italy, they are protesting against European agricultural policies that they claim to behave to the sector.
Earlier Farm Minister Francesco Lollobrigida met with representatives of the protest movement in Verona and said afterwards that the meeting had gone "very well".
The protests are a spin-off from similar demonstrations acrossEurope including France, Belgium, Germany and Greece.
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