Growers Dump 300kg Grapes in Street as Alert to Douro Region Crisis
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At this more intense time of the harvests, there are wine growers who still do not know who to sell the grapes to. Joaquim Monteiro, of the Association Fight for the Douro, states that the protests served as a warning.
Reaction arises one day after the producers have dumped about 300 kilos of grapes in front of the headquarters of the Institute of Douro and Porto Wines.
After dumping 300 kilos of grapes on the street, the winegrowers of the Douro promise to take their protest to the opening of the Vindouro, where Luís Montenegro and the Minister of Agriculture are expected.
Some winegrowers decided to dump the grapes in front of the IVDP in order to alert them to the "increasing difficulties" that they feel in the oldest demarcated and regulated region of the world, the Douro.
Growers dump 300kg grapes in street as alert to Douro region crisis
Around 300 kilograms of grapes were dumped outside the headquarters of the Douro and Porto Wine Institute (IVDP) in Régua, in northern Portugal, today in a symbolic protest to draw The post Growers dump 300kg grapes in street as alert to Douro region crisis appeared first on Portugal Resident.
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