Specific requests
A letter with requests and proposals to the president of the provincial control room to combat swine fever, Monica Patelli, was sent today by the Beef and Pork Product Section of Confagricoltura Piacenza which met a few days ago to share the progress of the work on the Cabin and at the same time update on the state of the emergency. The farmers gathered discussed a series of practical issues on methods and times of travel, authorizations and anything else that is causing a problem, above all, they jointly decided to bring their contribution inside the Cabin through Giovanna Parmigiani, president of product section, which sits on their behalf inside the Cabin itself and to press the body whose times, in the opinion of the farmers, are too long and incompatible with the situation.
Lack of cold storage
«On behalf – we read in the document – of the product section, we represent the following requests and proposals. The pig farmers believe that the timescales set to date for the cabin update meetings are incompatible with the emergency and ask, understanding the impossibility of calling closer collegial meetings, for information, through reports and minutes, at least weekly on the actions taken concretely on the pitch from the cabin in the time between matches. It is highlighted that the lack of cold rooms to store the carcasses in compliance with the regulations currently constitutes a major impediment to the increase in slaughter and the president of the control room is asked to interface with the ASL so that the problem can be quickly resolved.
Economic incentives
The section unanimously subscribes to the proposal already presented in the Booth by its president to tax itself to contribute to making equipment available to the ATCs to effectively increase abatements. The willingness to provide an economic incentive for killings is also reiterated, equally it is requested that at least part of the funds that the Region has declared it can make available for the management of the emergency are allocated to cover the hunting costs incurred by the bioregulators, it is specifically requested that a higher and dedicated incentive be allocated for the culling of female wild boars.
Moratorium on mortgages
Last but not least, the Section, reporting the commercial critical issues and the widespread depreciation of the meat delivered to slaughterhouses, even if perfectly healthy, highlights that in the face of the persistence of this damage, which is pushing today to empty the farms, tomorrow to close the farms, the production part is could be forced, in order to obtain at least the moratorium on mortgages and adequate tax relief, to submit the request for the implementation of the State of Emergency to the competent bodies, despite being aware that this would imply the parallel blocking of all national exports of the prestigious pig production. Taking this opportunity again to highlight how urgent interventions cannot be postponed for a situation that is becoming more serious by the hour, we trust in your availability and look forward to your kind feedback." «I trust in the availability and diligence of the president of the Cabin – comments Parmigiani – the next scheduled meeting is set for March 27th. It is clear that a different operation is needed. We are already awaiting a response to our proposals there" (source: Confagricoltura).