The public tender for the rental of agricultural land for the construction of enclosures for the hare setting has been published on the site of the Atc 13 of Massa Carrara.
The experimental project to create the first local breeding that complies with a breeding specification to be used for restocking. Deadline for presenting the expression of interest: Saturday 25 February.
AAA wanted agricultural land to rent to raise hares in Lunigiana. Phase one of the project for the local production of hare to be allocated to the restocking envisaged as part of the Plans aimed at the objectives of the Provincial Management Plan 2011 that the Management Committee of the Territorial Hunting Area of Massa Carrara intends to activate in the coming months involving local agricultural entrepreneurs, a strategic link to create the first native hare breeding. The land will be used to house the fixed structures for the hares to acclimatise.
The notice was published on the ATC 13 website (available and downloadable on atcms13.it) and provides for the rental for a period of 15 years (starting from April 15 for a rent not exceeding 200 euros per hectare). on which they will be installed, as already mentioned, the fences for the setting of hares and carried out the breeding activities.
The project, the first to be carried out in Tuscany, will also be presented during a conference scheduled for Saturday 11 February (starting at 9,30. Free admission) at the Terrarossa Castle in Licciana Nardi (Ms) during which the aims and repercussions on the territory and in economic and employment terms will be illustrated. Among the evaluation criteria to participate in the public tender - reads the tender - the land must comply with a series of fundamental characteristics for the production of the hare.
The land must have a total area of approximately 2 to 4 hectares of each contiguous land grouping e they must be land that is not flat and, preferably, with exposure to the East, South-East, South.
And yet: the overall open area (not occupied by woods or dense scrub of various kinds) must be greater than 60%; absence of water stagnation or damage to the superficial arrangements of the land that could favor its onset in case of rain; availability between the surfaces of areas that can be worked with agricultural vehicles; soil rich in skeleton and not clayey, well drained; absence of significant urban, landscape, archaeological, environmental constraints that prevent the construction of fences, etc .; presence of access road, also unpaved, passable by vehicles. The land - the announcement reads - will also be assessed on the basis of their location, favoring land less visible from both roads and buildings, without prejudice to the need to facilitate surveillance and control.
The expression of interest must be delivered, in a closed envelope bearing the wording "Expression of interest in the rental of agricultural land for the construction of fences for the hare", by registered letter with return receipt or delivered directly to the ATC Secretariat located in L.go Bonfigli 3/5 - 54011- Aulla (MS), by 12.00 on Saturday 25 February 2012.
For information, updates and forms you can contact the site atcms13.it Territorial Area of Hunting MS 13
Andrew Berti
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