French farmers have blocked access to a nuclear power plant in Tarn-et-Garonne in south-west France.

French farmers have blocked access to a nuclear power plant in Tarn-et-Garonne in south-west France.

Fifty tractors have blocked access to the Golfes nuclear power plant and the A62 motorway in Tarn-et-Garonne is closed in both directions, local media reported.

Protests against low food prices and EU agricultural policy are intensifying in the country. Protest leaders are threatening to widen them.