A massive farmers’ protest has been scheduled for Friday and Saturday at Syntagma square with farmers from Crete having already arrived in Athens while farmers from other regions and 65 blockades around the country heading to the capital.

Meanwhile, the police have set up their own road blocks across the national high ways to prevent farmers from driving their tractors to Athens.

Early in the morning, police stopped the tractors heading from Peloponnese to Athens at Corinth, but the farmers left their tractors there and continued their trip to Athens by private cars and buses.

Protesters are expected to meet at Omonoia square and walk towards the Parliament on Syntagma square, where they will set up tents to house farmers who will remain there for the entire weekend.