Farmers in Lleida protest against excessive bureaucracy and duplication of administrative procedures

Protesters, called by Unió de Pagesos, burned documents and a damaged tree in front of the Territorial Services of Agriculture headquarters.

Generic image of an agricultural protest with burnt papers and tractors on a city street.
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Generic image of an agricultural protest with burnt papers and tractors on a city street.

Farmers called by Unió de Pagesos gathered in Lleida on Wednesday to denounce excessive bureaucracy and the duplication of administrative procedures.

The protest took place on Camp de Mart street, in front of the headquarters of the Territorial Services of Agriculture. As a symbolic act of rejection of the paperwork, the demonstrators burned a pile of documents and a young tree that had been damaged by wildlife.
The farmers submitted a thousand documents to the department certifying damage to crops caused by wildlife, requesting that they be officially stamped as proof of the administrative burden they endure.
Following the initial concentration, the demonstrators planned to head to the Territori headquarters to continue their demands and highlight the cross-cutting nature of bureaucratic problems.
The main demands include the urgent simplification of procedures, the acceleration of hunting permits to control wildlife, and improvements in the management of aid applications, which are often excessively delayed.