Escorted by police, the tractors headed to Via Marina, where a soup kitchen gives meals to the poor each day, to give people produce collected from their fields at dawn.
The procession then moved 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, a group of protesting farmers said they would be standing down their ‘garrison’ of tractors in Rome after 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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