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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Farmers drive tractors to Paris to protest pesticide ban

Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Hundreds of farmers drove their tractors through Paris on Wednesday to amplify their demand to be allowed to use banned pesticides on sugar beets and other crops to ensure “food sovereignty” for France.

Entering the French capital through a southern gateway, the farmers' convoy rolled to the gold-domed Invalides monument, site of Napoleon’s tomb.

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