Tractors have parked outside parliament, blocked supermarket distribution centres and turned up at politicians' homes - all because of the Dutch government's plans to cut harmful nitrogen emissions to meet climate targets.
Thefarming industry has been told it must make radical changes to cut harmful emissions, and some farmers fear their livelihoods will be obliterated.
TheDutch government's proposals to tackle nitrogen emissions point to a radical reduction in livestock - they estimate 11,200 farms will have to close and another 17,600 farmers will have to reduce their livestock significantly.
Otherproposals include reductions in intensive agriculture and conversion to sustainable “green farming.”
Angryfarmers have burned hay bales, dumped manure on highways, formed blockades at supermarket distribution centres with farm machinery and staged protests on the doorsteps of politicians' homes.
