Farmers have announced plans to take to the Nicosia streets with their tractors on Monday, 16 February, at 11.30am in protest against the “serious problems” they face.
The protest by the Cyprus Organisation of Cereal Producers will take place outside the headquarters of the Cyprus Agricultural Payments Organisation (CAPO) in the capital.
The decision to protest was taken unanimously last Tuesday at a meeting in Larnaca. According to the cereal producers’ announcement, “Cyprus farmers are once again facing recurring and particularly serious issues that directly affect their income, their productive activity and, by extension, the sustainability of the entire agricultural sector.”
They argued that despite repeated assurances by CAPO that farmers would be paid their subsidies in December, a large number of farmers have still not been paid, while many of those who were paid found unjustified significant cuts in the amounts received.
While the farmers acknowledge that “the competent state services have proceeded with the necessary arrangements requested by CAPO for the immediate payment of farmers”, they still take issue with the constant obstacles placed before them by the payments organisation, which create problems and payment delays.
The organisers “extend an open call to all farmers to unite their voices and actively participate in the tractor mobilisation on 16 February 2026, demanding immediate and substantial solutions to the serious problems affecting the agricultural sector.”
Source: CNA