“We welcome the decision of the Prefecture of Turin to open an institutional discussion table on the emergency of the wildlife. The situation has become unsustainable, the damage that farms are undergoing risk causing the abandonment of crops, with very serious economic and environmental consequences ". So the president of Cia-Italian Farmers of the Alps, Stefano Rossotto, on leaving the meeting convened by the Prefecture of Turin with the representatives of the agricultural categories and the Piedmont region to take stock of the current state of affairs and to identify emergency solutions.
"We have asked - Rossotto continues - that the territorial companies for hunting, the Alpine Sections and the Higher Institute for environmental protection and research are also involved". With the spring sowing, the assault of wild boars on the fields reaches apex of devastation, compromising the results of the harvest. "If urgent measures are not taken - warns the president of Cia Agricoltori delle Alpi-, several companies of young farmers, especially on the hills of Turin, will be forced to close their doors. We no longer know how to say it, or who to turn to. We strongly ask the Metropolitan City to give the go-ahead to the company tutor, as required by regional law and already active in other Piedmontese provinces, to counter in some way the raging wild boars".
“For too long - Rossotto points out - Turin farmers have been forced to suffer a situation that is now unsustainable, without in fact measures have been taken to preserve the survival of their farms, especially in mountainous and more isolated areas. We reiterate the appeal to the institutions, why face once and for all the age-old problem of wild boars, whose presence on the territory is constantly increasing, putting that of farmers at risk, with incalculable economic and environmental damage ".