Berlin Int'l Green Week kicks off amid farmer protests

BERLIN, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- The International Green Week, a leading trade fair for food, agriculture and horticulture, opened to visitors on Friday in the German capital Berlin amidst protests by farmers against planned subsidy cuts.

Hundreds of tractors and trucks obstructed traffic around the exhibition grounds. The protests already started at the end of last year. First concessions by the German government, promising to eliminate some of the cuts, did not satisfy the farmers.