“It continues to increase the list of difficulties faced by Lucanian farmers, like most of their colleagues in the rest of the Peninsula, they are forced to confront each other on a daily basis; to the difficult economic situation, in fact, characterized by high production costs and unfavorable market conditions, were added to the effects of adverse weatherwith an extremely hot winter which was followed by a very dry spring with very little rainfall.”
This is underlined by president of Copagri Basilicata Nicola Minichino, according to whom “it is a decidedly critical situationwhich is compromising many leading production sectors of the Lucanian agri-food sector”.
The president remarks:
“The few rains have almost the water availability necessary to irrigate the fields was eliminated, with direct consequences on the productivity of the companies.
They respect each other significant production drops, That for durum wheat they reach up to 50-60% and which practically concern all arable landwith reductions in the order of 40% and even greater damage for legumes and forage crops, with very serious repercussions on livestock supply chain; without counting, then, the olive sectorwhich pays the price for the lack of planning for open-field spring and summer horticultural sowing.
Given the gravity of the situation, which is also affected by the consequences of the damage caused by wildlife, and in particular by wild boars, it is essential to accelerate the appointment of the new regional council, so as to have a reference councilor who can protect the entrepreneurial and productive fabric of the Primary School of Basilicata.
There are certainly among the first issues that the new agriculture councilor will necessarily have to address the drought emergency and water scarcity, carrying out a rapid reconnaissance and a first estimate of the damage, fundamental condition to be able to start the procedures provided for by Legislative Decree 102/04 and thus access, once the state of disaster has been recognised, the National Solidarity Fund.
In the event that the latter is recognized, the agricultural companies can benefit from a suspension of the payment of social security and welfare contributions, the suspension or deferral of the deadline for fulfilling tax and social security obligations he was born in payment of the installments and the effects of the agricultural credit and, finally, of an advance on the payments of the CAP premiums”.
