Economic and Political Union of Lithuanian Farmers

For the union affiliated with the Lithuanian Christian Democrats, see Farmers' Association.

The Economic and Political Union of Lithuanian Farmers (Lithuanian: Ekonominė ir politinė Lietuvos žemdirbių sąjunga or simply Žemdirbiai) was a political party in interwar Lithuania. Publisher Saliamonas Banaitis was the union's ideological leader. The union represented interests of larger landowners and opposed the 1922 land reform in Lithuania. The union fared poorly in the 1920–1923 Lithuanian parliamentary elections gaining less than 1.2% of the votes. Established in April 1919, it merged with the Party of National Progress in August 1924 to form the Lithuanian Nationalist Union but continued to formally exist until 1931.

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