Angry farmers also sow internal conflict
May 11, 2021
Norwegian farmers drove their tractors right up to the Parliament in Oslo on Tuesday, furious that the government offered them less than half the amount of taxpayer support and subsidy they’d demanded. Leaders of their own agricultural cooperatives, meanwhile, are pocketing multi-million-
kroner salaries and bonuses, raising questions about internal disparity and conflict.
The farmers can seem to constantly be pleading poverty, but their own leaders are doing very well indeed. Newspaper
Klassekampen reported over the weekend how the chief executive of the farmer-owned dairy cooperative
Tine was paid NOK 4.1 million last year, while the leader of meat and poultry cooperative
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