Greece's government held emergency meetings Wednesday to address a growing farm protest movement, as demonstrators temporarily blocked the central port of Volos.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called a meeting on EU subsidy payments demanded by farmers, his office said. The agriculture minister was to brief government lawmakers later as the protest stretched into a second week.

After farmers on Crete blocked the island's two main airports for hours on Monday, growers on Wednesday shut down the port of Volos for a few hours, backed by fishermen who stationed their boats at the entrance to the harbour.

Volos, one of Greece's main ports, is a key gateway into Thessaly, the country's agricultural heartland.

State TV ERT said that over a hundred trucks loaded with wheat bound for Tunisi

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