The deadline for joining the courses for the self-control of the wild boar species in the region will expire on June 30th, which will allow farmers, owners of the funds, to intervene to "protect" their crops from attack by ungulates. “This is an action strongly desired by Coldiretti of Molise - affirms the Confederal Delegate, Giuseppe Spinelli - who found in the Councilor for agriculture Nicola Cavaliere a courageous and convinced supporter ". Once the training activities have been completed, the subjects authorized for containment, the so-called selecontrollers, together with the figures of the "assistants", or the trained hunters, called directly by the owner and conductor of the fund, we could count on an additional tool to protect the work of our agricultural entrepreneurs.
Naturally, these actions must be accompanied by concrete actions by all those involved and, first of all, by the Hunting Areas, tools absolutely necessary for the containment of these wild animals, with the direct involvement of agricultural entrepreneurs. "In fact - explains Coldiretti Molise - a regional register of selecontrollers will also be established, which will be able to act with as much operational flexibility as possible. We must remember that the function of the selecontrollers - continues Giuseppe Spinelli - has all the characteristics of public utility to protect the citizen; their action is not that of mere hunting, but of prevention of a serious social, environmental and economic problem which unfortunately today has also taken on the connotations of health risk ".
Furthermore, a monitoring activity will finally shed light on the consistency of the phenomenon, explains Coldiretti Molise, which affects not only the countryside, with damage and hydrogeological risk, but also inhabited centers with continuous dangers for citizens due to possible attacks by wild boars, road accidents, even fatal ones that cause, without forgetting that wild boars can be vehicles for the transmission of diseases and epizootic diseases such as ASF that jeopardize our regional pig heritage which consists, considering only specialized farms, of about 300 companies that they raise pigs with more than 18 thousand heads in breeding, for the most part destined for the production of products highly appreciated by the market, not only locally.
The courses, strongly desired by Coldiretti, will provide a concrete response to farmers, who in this way will be able to defend their land from the invasion of wild boars that are bringing hundreds of companies to the brink of bankruptcy; but self-control - Spinelli warns - is only a further step towards solving the problem which, we reiterate, can only be overcome with the modification of Law 157/92 on wildlife with the extension of the hunting period up to 5 months. 'year and the possibility to make withdrawals even in areas that are now classified as' protected' "(source: Coldiretti).