Bologna, 8 May 2024 – La Romagna is invaded by grasshoppers and the Region she’s ready to run in help to particularly affected areas. In fact, it is already ready contrast plane which involves the involvement of farmers and Local societiesas well as the whole communityto quickly locate the birthplaces of grasshoppers and intervene promptly with a insecticide treatment biological.
The fight plan and economic support
There is more and more talk about theinvasion of locusts in Romagna and the Region is preparing to intervene. The main solution is to collaborate with institutions, farmers and local communities to identify the “grill“, the places of reproduction of the animal, and intervene with a insecticide treatmentwhich recently obtained from Ministry of Health the authorization for employment on alfalfa fields.
The region Emilia Romagna will bestow a Economic support to the municipalities that have joined the aforementioned contrast planeand he will do it through some specific actions: via i phytosanitary bulletins weekly indications will be given on the various mode to counteract locusts, while a refund up to 50% of the cost of interventions that the municipalities will carry out directly or through them professional farmers.
There strategy of Emilia-Romagna consists of a containment of locusts in the first stages of growth. In fact, the interventions carried out when the insects in question are still little ones, without wings and grouped in small areas they prevent it diffusion and limit the damage to the territory and crops.
To organize in timely manner the containment procedure and considered i economic damage caused by the invasion, the phytosanitary sector of Region met i interested municipalities to introduce and share the plan.
The importance of collaboration
A pivotal point of the contrast plan consists in collaboration with the Local societies they farmers. Among the actions that stand out are the distribution of leaflets containing the directions necessary to recognize the “grill” and the establishment of physical references in the territory to which citizens and tourists can turn report sightings and eventually communicate the coordinates geographical. In this way it is possible to identify the outbreaks on time and intervene in the most appropriate way quick possible.
In case of absence by the companies of necessary tools to carry out the treatment (for which a phytosanitary license is required) the municipalities can intervene directly or through mobile units specialized.
