There were three thousand according to the Coldiretti Umbria to the farmers who mobilized on Tuesday morning in Piazza Italia in Perugia, starting in procession from Piazza Partigiani, to ask for certain and immediate answers on the wild boar plague, but also on other urgent and no longer postponable issues, such as administrative simplification, the relaunch of the livestock supply chain and issues relating to social agriculture.
The President of the Umbria Region Donatella Tesei, speaking among the demonstrators, announced the green light to the Extraordinary Plan for the management and containment of wild boars and to the Extraordinary Plan for the capture, killing and disposal of wild boars of the Extraordinary Commissioner of the PSA. Concrete measures were also announced on the administrative simplification front, on the relaunch of the livestock supply chain and on the implementing regulation of the law on social agriculture, as also confirmed by the Regional Councilor for Agriculture Roberto Morroni who also reached the farmers in the square.
“City and countryside united against wild boars”, but also “We sow, wild boars reap”, “We defend our territory”; “SOS agriculture, stop the wild boars!” “Nightmare boars of the streets”; “Against swine fever, let’s stop the siege of wild boars” “Stop bureaucracy, we want to work”; “Let’s save animal husbandry, let’s protect our farms”: these are just some of the slogans shown by the farmers who attended from all over the region, led by the president Coldiretti Umbria Albano Agabiti, from the president Coldiretti Perugia Anna Chiacchierini, from the president of Coldiretti Terni Dominga Cotarella, together with the regional director Coldiretti Mario Rossi.
«We demonstrated today – underlined President Agabiti – against what is no longer just an economic problem for the sector, but also an environmental, public health and safety problem and other decisive needs for the primary sector. On wild boars we asked for extraordinary measures which the region granted us today; Prompt measures will arrive on the other instances. Our mobilization – continued Agabiti – takes place in various stages in all Italian regions, demonstrating how wild boars are a national plague, which in Umbria has taken on a high and particular severity with around 150 thousand wild boars estimated at the whole territory”
«To the damage to crops has been added the alarm of African swine fever, which wild boars risk spreading in the countryside, endangering pig farms in the area. But today – said director Mario Rossi – we have also relaunched on other urgencies that our farmers are strongly asking for to protect the regional primary sector, enhancing its competitiveness and strategic nature for the entire community. And on this too, important responses were received from the regional administration: as always, our work will end when the priorities that are important to agricultural businesses are fully implemented.”
