Italian agriculture minister visits farmers, as they prepare to demonstrate

Italian Prime Minister on Friday met with Italian farmers associations at the edge of Rome after weeks of demonstrations across the country and promised to reinstate a limited tax break. Farmers have been staging small protests from Sicily to Turin, demanding action on a range of issues.

Their injustice range from the cost of fuel to European Union environmental regulations designed to mitigate climate change but which they are damaging their livelihoods. The Prime Minister said her government has already acted to support the industry, diverting an extra three billion euros and she agreed to extend an income tax exemption for farmers in force since 2017.But the extension will only be for those on low incomes.