Farmers from the Comitato Agricoltori Avellinesi shared a public assembly with students, citizens and institutional representatives in Piazza Libertà in Avellino, using the meeting to restate the hardships facing the agricultural supply chain and to insist that their anger over unresolved problems remains.

The exact date of the assembly described in the primary report is not specified in the material reviewed. It is distinct from a separately documented tractor mobilization held in Avellino on 28 January 2025, which was presented as a resumption of the previous year's tractor protests.

An assembly in the center of Avellino

According to the verified reporting, the assembly in Piazza Libertà brought together farmers, students, citizens and institutional representatives. Roberto Lauro spoke on behalf of the farmers, describing difficulties across the agricultural supply chain.

The issues raised by Lauro and the Comitato Agricoltori Avellinesi were not limited to one grievance. They included rising costs, imports from abroad, unsold produce, damage attributed to wildlife, and difficulty obtaining adequate payment for local production.

Claims about imports and the use of European funds were reported as positions taken by the demonstrators, not as independently verified data.

What the farmers say they are asking for

At the center of the farmers' action is a request for recognition of a state of crisis for the agricultural sector, a demand documented across all three local reports reviewed.

The farmers present their other concerns as connected to that request:

  • adequate remuneration for local production at a time of rising costs, in the demonstrators' account;
  • action on imports, which the protesters say harm local producers;
  • attention to unsold produce and damage attributed to wildlife;
  • continued institutional attention to farm and fishing businesses in Irpinia and Campania.

The farmers have also referred to contacts with the president of Campania and the regional councillor for agriculture. The sources reviewed do not document a definitive outcome from those talks.

The 28 January 2025 mobilization

A second, separately dated event helps explain the context. On 28 January 2025, farmers gathered in Avellino with tractors and again asked for recognition of a state of crisis for the sector, citing imports and economic hardship.

Local coverage presented that January gathering as a new phase after the tractor protests of the previous year. The evidence reviewed documents that resumption in Avellino; it does not establish a wider trend beyond the cases reported.

The Comitato Agricoltori Avellinesi was identified as the organizer of the renewed mobilization in Avellino, calling for institutional attention to the crisis facing farm businesses.

Clearance of the Avellino site

The primary report states that the Avellino encampment was cleared following intervention by the Questura. According to the same source, encampments in Salerno and Caserta remained active at that time.

No participant count and no complete list of student organizations present were documented in the material reviewed.

What remains unresolved

Several points remain unclear in the available reporting. The formal recognition of a state of crisis, if any, following the meetings with regional officials has not been verified. The precise chronology linking the Piazza Libertà assembly to the January mobilization and to the clearance is also incomplete.

What is established is the farmers' message itself, summarized in Lauro's phrase "La rabbia resta" — "The anger remains": the protesters say costs, imports, unsold produce and inadequate remuneration continue to weigh on local agriculture, and they intend to keep that claim in public view in Avellino.