Farmers block a main road in France and spray cars with manure (Picture: POL EMILE/SIPA/REX Shutterstock)

Farmers are spraying manure over cars in protest over falling food prices.

They’ve also been spreading liquid waste in front of supermarkets and blocking main roads with tractors in France’s Moselle region.

French farmers have been hit by lower meat consumption, reduced demand from China and a Russian ban on EU food imports.

It has been estimated that around ten per cent of farmers face bankruptcy.


Farmers spread liquid manure during a protest in front of the supermarket Cora in Metz (Picture: EPA/MATHIEU CUGNOT)

Aid to ease farmers’ debts has been announced which includes the cancellation of taxes worth some €100m.

But a French farmers’ union leader, Franck Sander, said: ‘The measures announced by the government are only about postponing contributions, but none of them deal with the competition distortions.’

Tractors are blocking roads in France (Picture: POL EMILE/SIPA/REX Shutterstock)

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It has been estimated that around ten per cent of French farmers face bankruptcy (Picture: POL EMILE/SIPA/REX Shutterstock)