The mobilization starts: Tuesday 18 June from 9.30 am at the headquarters of the Calabria Region on State Road 107 Vaglio Lise – Cosenza
Press release
The number of participants of farmers, citizens, mayors and other representatives of institutions at the Coldiretti event “Enough wild boars and wildlife” is constantly growing throughout the region.
“Despite having recorded an appreciable first step forward by the Regional Council which approved the approval of the “Guidelines of the Extraordinary Plan for the management and containment of wild fauna”, proposed some time ago by Coldiretti.
We will continue to move forward because the severity of the wild boar and wildlife emergency, which has been out of control for too long, requires it, affecting not only farmers, but also citizens and affecting all of the Calabrian municipalities, from the countryside to the inhabited centers.
This is what Franco Aceto, President of Coldiretti Calabria and member of the Confederal Council, declares. Monitoring the implementation of the resolution is essential.
Wild boars – Aceto specifies – have caused around five million euros worth of damage to Calabrian agriculture in the last year, devastating fields of wheat, potatoes, corn, vegetables and even vineyards and orchards. The damage caused by wild animals is not reimbursed except in a minimal part 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 do arrive never cover the real value of the destroyed product or the killed animal. To give an example, a producer of fine wine who has had his vineyard devastated by wild boars will only be compensated for the simple value of the grapes and the same happens for other crops.
Coldiretti – explains the leader of Coldiretti – is also concerned with the protection of the pig herd which has over 5 thousand farms in Calabria, including family farms, with around 52 thousand heads of pigs and excluding the four PDO cured meats, Coldiretti estimates that the sector of production of cured meats, sausages and pork, breeding, processing, transport and distribution is worth over €400 million, generating many jobs.
The direction is the right one, but Coldiretti – concludes Aceto – has the duty to accelerate the virtuous paths, so on June 18th it will be in the streets.
