Around 100 farmers from all over Campania arrived with their tractors in Naples on Wednesday to stage a protest against the hardship they are facing and to give fruit to the poor in the southern city.
Escorted by police, the tractors headed to Via Marina, where asoup kitchen gives meals to the poor each day, to give peopleproduce collected from their fields at dawn.
The procession is then heading to Piazza Municipio, the home of the town hall, and the city's seafront.
"Save Agriculture," read a banner on one of the tractors.
"Our end will be your hunger," warned another.
Earlier this week one group of farmers involved in the protests in Italy, on the back of demonstrations in other parts of Europe, said they would be standing down their 'garrison' of tractors in Rome after Premier Giorgia Meloni's government promised measures to help them.
The help included tax breaks on the IRPEF income tax, with an exemption for earnings up to 10,000 euros and the rate halved for earnings between 10,000 and 15,000 euros.
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