The Councilor for Agriculture of the Abruzzo region, Dino Pepe, explained the contents of the announcement issued for the selection of cooperation projects of microfilera, the first step of food supply chain. The goal is to improve the markets' approach to game, considered a niche product: the goal can be reached with a careful health check, paying attention to the economic dimensions assumed by the purchase and sale of the product.
Wild boar meat is a resource available in Abruzzo, even if it is not exploited as it should and could, given that every year thousands of specimens are killed during the selection and self-control hunting. For this reason, the call has provided for 400 thousand euros to be allocated to the financing of regional agricultural enterprises who will present projects for the enhancement of game, primarily wild boars that have been killed or captured.
The productions will also be extended to large-scale distribution, trying to give as much impetus as possible to marketing of meat and transforming what is a calamity into an economic resource. The business plan is being executed and the parties to be involved are already known (agricultural producers, slaughterers, processors, distributors of finished products) and the methods of intervention.