L’siege of wild boars, unfair practices and wild imports were the main themes at the center of provincial assemblies of Coldiretti also organized in Basilicata in Potenza and Policorosimultaneously throughout the national territory, to ask for immediate solutions.
A crucial day for an organization that is celebrating its own this year eighty years to remember the great battles and the results obtained and to outline the path for the future, starting from the urgent priorities for the agricultural world and the authentic “made in Italy”.
In Basilicata, it was explained, uncontrolled wildlife has caused in the last year damage to agriculture amounting to millions of euroswith cultivated fields literally razed to the groundto which are added problems caused by wild food imports from abroadwith costs of production skyrocketed and prices paid in the fields below survival levels.
In particular i damage caused by wild animals is not reimbursed that to a minimal extent and often after many years, with a situation that has led many to give up reporting the attacks they have suffered.
Among other things, the few compensations that arrive never cover the real value of the destroyed product or the killed animal.
Added to the damage to crops was theAfrican swine fever alertthe disease not transmissible to humans that wild boars risk spreading in the countryside, endangering pig farms in the area and, with them, an entire sector.
Hence the request also made by Basilicata to put an immediate stop to the proliferation of wild animals, giving farmers the opportunity to defend their lands.
The other problem that weighs on company balance sheets is the collapse of prices paid to producers in many symbolic sectorsstarting from wheat, which is also aggravated by the phenomenon of unfair practices.
And national food sovereignty is also threatened by the invasion of foreign products with food imports increasing by 60% in the last decade, reaching a record value of 65 billion euros, according to Coldiretti analysis on Istat data .
Products often come from countries that do not respect the same rules of food and environmental safety and respect for workers’ rights and which are often passed off as tricolor by taking advantage of the customs code that allows them to be “Italianized” thanks to minimal processing.
A dramatic phenomenon against which Coldiretti brought ten thousand farmers to the borders of Brenner, launching a great mobilization for a European popular initiative law proposal on the transparency of what we bring to the table, with the collection of one million signatures.
The campaign can be supported by signing at all Campagna Amica farmers’ markets and in the Coldiretti offices and will also be promoted on social media with the hashtag nofakeinitaly .
