Thessaloniki farmer Anna Aivazidi's blood boils when she thinks of the huge sums siphoned off in a major EU farm subsidy scandal.

"I earn 300 euros ($355) in subsidies a year. I struggle to produce every day. I feel extremely wronged," the 40-year-old told AFP.

"Subsidies should go to real producers," she said.

Aivazidi is among thousands of Greek farmers who say they were penalised for years while others profited, in a massive scam allegedly assisted by government officials.

The scheme began following a change in the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy, which in 2014 shifted subsidies from livestock to land.

Greece's land registry at the time was woefully incomplete, however, meaning ownership over much of the country was unclear.

To facilitate them, farmers were allowed to

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