La Coldiretti Calabria, continues to denounce for years now the very serious situation of damage to agricultural crops caused by wild boars. A well-known situation - points out Coldiretti - which, however, does not find a real solution. It is now a continuous and abnormal proliferation of wild boars that cause very serious damage to crops, biodiversity and the environment, also threatening public health and safety. Reports of companies that suffer significant damage to production follow one another, as well as requests for intervention to stem this phenomenon which now rages all year round.
Even more - adds Coldiretti - in this period, when the pressure and the presence of this wild on the territory are greater. Many areas and too many areas are suffering and seeing compromises or even already destroyed the crops of summer crops, or summer-autumn. An example is the dramatic situation of the territories of the Silano plateau which are being damaged day by day land cultivated with Patate della Sila PGI and this certainly weakens the productive fabric. The president of the Coldiretti di Parenti Section, Fiore Gualtieri, is the spokesperson for this serious problem and with the Regional President of Coldiretti Calabria Franco Aceto forcefully ask for the immediate intervention of the competent Territorial Bodies, with the need for a descent into the field of the selecontrollers trained by the Region to prepare as soon as possible a series of interventions aimed at numerical control of the wild boar populations present.
Farmers just want to be able to legitimately do business, without being forced to watch over their crops even at night. Precisely to face once and for all a problem whose resolution requires an urgent turning point - concluded Aceto - for this reason we turn to all stakeholders who care about our production system, as well as the safety of the community ".