Greece offers farmers cheaper fuel, damage cover in bid to end blockades

Greece promised farmers cheaper fuel and full compensation for future output losses on Wednesday in a last-ditch effort to persuade them to end demonstrations that have disrupted travel and hit some businesses.

Farmers have stationed thousands of tractors and trucks across Greece since late last year, obstructing major highways and intermittently blocking border crossings to protest high production costs and delays in farm aid payments.

The centre-right government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis...