Quick compensation
Intervene immediately to deal with the emergency and block the spread of the virus, implement prevention measures to secure unaffected farms, allocate the economic resources needed to compensate farmers damaged by the virus in a very short time. These are the requests that Cia-Agricoltori Italiani della Sardinia addresses the Region and the institutions responsible for responding to the latest “blue tongue” emergency affecting the island. “Based on the reports received from breeders, further confirmed by the dramatic data regarding the spread of blue tongue in Sardinian farms, which, as reported by the Experimental Zooprophylactic Institute of Sardinia, currently involves over 10 thousand heads in 360 companies, we ask the Region and all the institutions to implement with the utmost urgency the measures necessary to address a situation that is increasingly damaging Sardinian breeders”, declares the regional director of Cia Sardegna, Alessandro Vacca.
How to deal with the emergency
“It is intolerable, given the experience and knowledge acquired, that we find ourselves once again chasing last-minute solutions on issues that should be addressed early and routinely. We need to act immediately to deal with the emergency,” continues the director of Cia Sardegna. “In expressing concern about the growth in infections, we ask the regional health department what procedures and strategies it intends to implement to intervene in farms affected by bluetongue and block the spread of the virus,” Vacca emphasizes. “We reiterate the need to ensure preventively and immediately, using all available tools, starting with anti-parasitic repellents, in all farms the possibility of blocking the onset of further outbreaks and the spread of new infections in livestock farms.”
On the side of companies
Cia Sardegna also takes the side of companies already affected by the virus: “We also urge regional institutions to immediately plan the allocation of all the economic resources necessary to reimburse all the damages suffered by breeders, using the parameters provided in the Ismea tables, currently already severely affected by the long drought and the endemic problems of the sector”, concludes Vacca (source: CIA).
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