We will also ask the next government for a very urgent decree law to modify thearticle 19 of law 157 of 1992, expand the wild boar hunting period and give the Regions the possibility to carry out control and selection plans in protected areas ”. This was announced by the president of the Coldiretti, Ettore Prandini, on the occasion of the organisation's assembly.
"It is paradoxical to be here to renew a request that should have been the subject of a decree promised a few months ago and remained a dead letter, but we are really out of time to give answers to the tens of thousands of companies that see their work canceled every day by 2,3 million wild boars proliferated without any control and which represent a danger to the health and safety of citizens ".
"A scourge for the fields and for the tables with the drought that - argues Coldiretti - has further aggravated the food deficit of Italy which produces just 36% of the soft wheat you need, 53% of corn, 51% of beef, 56% of durum wheat for pasta, 73% of barley, 63% of pork and cured meats, 49% of goat and sheep meat while for milk and cheese you get to84% self-sufficiency. A situation determined above all by the low wages paid to farmers who have been forced to reduce national corn production by almost 1/3 in the last 10 years during which even one out of five wheat fields disappeared with the loss of almost half a million hectares cultivated ”(source: Coldiretti).