What sparked New Zealand farmers to protest?

Earlier this month, thousands of farmers in New Zealand descended on dozens of towns and cities across the country on tractors, in a nationwide protest demanding the government loosen its environmental policies and climate change regulations which they said are hurting their businesses, reports Reuters. Farmers drove tractors (16 July), bearing different placards with clear message against the regulations, from the outskirts of Auckland into the city centre, causing gridlock on the motorways. E