(ANSA) - PARIS, 08 FEB - Hundreds of tractors are converging on Paris as part of a protest by farmers to denounce the "constraints" that weigh on agriculture, in particular, the restrictions on the use of pesticides.
The FNSEA, France's first agricultural union, speaks of about "500 tractors" and "over 2,000 farmers" en route to the capital.
The tractor procession is expected to arrive at the Portede Versailles in southern Paris, where a massive police device has been deployed.
The protest had a negative impact on traffic, with 354 km of traffic jams and slowdowns just before eight in the morning in the Ile-de-France region of Paris, an "exceptional figure for that hour", writes the specialized site Sytadin.
To arouse the protest of the farmers was,
in particular, a recent government decision to waive the authorization of insecticides for beet growing.
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