“Farms throughout the region”, explains Gennaro Sicolo, president of CIA Agricoltori Italiani di Puglia, “have seen requests for payment sent to them that we believe are not due. Those bills must be cancelled! Recently, precisely in relation to this situation and knowing that the ‘file bubble’ was about to burst again, we asked for an urgent meeting with the regional government in order to have certain and no longer dilatory answers on the age-old management issue relating to the former Land Reclamation Consortia Arneo, Ugento, Li Foggi, Stornara and Tara, Terre d’Apulia today united in the Central-Southern Puglia Consortium.
At the moment, as for too long now, farmers are the anvil that continues to receive continuous hammering, without having any idea of the operational path of the Central-Southern Puglia Consortium. Both the process inherent to the redetermination of the classification plans and a clear framework on the financial aspects covering the investment plans aimed at guaranteeing the reconstruction of the consortium structures and the water supply system, as well as the status of debt resolution are still at a standstill. previous. To date, no response has been received and, without these responses, we will never be able to complete the process required by law to reach the consortium elections. To all this, which entails enormous damage for farmers, is added the mockery of the payment orders which have arrived like a Sword of Damocles on farmers who, in the event of failure to pay within the deadline set by law, the amount due has always been contested for lack of services of the consortium structures, they will be harassed by administrative detentions and more.
We therefore ask you to cancel those folders. We ask that politicians take on the commitment and responsibility to change the law and charge only those who actually use a service!”, concluded Gennaro Sicolo.
