from Financial Times eetto ts So) eee of June 25th 1963
Falling agriculture] prices, bum.er crops, and the chronic menaco of farm surpluses have once again brought French farmars out onto the highways in their tractors in protest. With fear spreading of a general collapse of prices comparable to the disasters of 1961, rittany peasants pelted passing motorista with unsold potatoes over the week-end, cutting off road traffic and dumping 21 tons of their produce into the river, Pine rosin producers of South West France _ blocked off a whole network of roads, Southern vine growers, whose situation is ~ gf possibly the most dangerous, launched militant protests against importations of : Algerian wine -— an issue likaly to present a serious danger for future Franco= digerian relations,
Fruit and vegetable growers of Southern France ere also protesting ageinst North African imports. Dairy farmers of Cantral France, for their part, are conducting a sellers! strike in milk. The vine growers have bsen promised that the quota of Algerian wine just authorised to bo placed on the market will be matched by equi alent purchases by merchants of French-produced wine. If the promise is not kept, violent protests will almost certainly bo forthcoming,
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