“We strongly and firmly support the proposal of the regional councilor Elisa Venturini to set up a working table, composed of the provincial and regional institutions together with the agricultural world, which addresses the issue of wild boars present outside the Colli Park, in particular in the Lower Padovana area ". For some time Cia-Italian Farmers Padua submits to the most appropriate fora the age-old question of ungulates which, with their passage alone, destroy crops and also become a danger in terms of road safety. If in the Park area the selecontrollers are authorized to contain these specimens (however, their activity is continuing on a regular basis, 341 have been removed between January and March 2021), outside the boundaries of the same a definitive solution has not yet been reached.
“Especially since in the last few weeks the sightings of entire herds of ungulates have multiplied in the plains, desperate for food and water -comments the president of Cia Padova, Roberto Betto-. We welcome the invitation of the regional councilor Venturini to be part of a specific table, together with the Veneto Region and the Province of Padua, to the extent of its competence. The problem is deeply felt by agricultural entrepreneurs - he adds -. These in a single night are likely to be frustrated a year of work. It is necessary to intervene as soon as possible, with all the tools required by law, so that the presence of wild boars in the Lower Padovana does not become an out-of-control criticality, as unfortunately happened in the Euganean Hills ".
“The farmers turn to us, exasperated, to resolve together with the competent authorities a problem that is transforming, week after week, in a drama, with negative implications also in relation to the profitability of farms ”. Not only do they damage crops, especially corn and grape varieties; ungulates, in fact, can cause accidents when crossing the road. “Often motorists notice at the last moment and go on us - concludes Betto-. Teaming up is the only way to achieve that result that we all hope for, for the good of the community ".