An emergency not to be underestimated
In Italy we need to broaden the wild boar hunting which represent the main vehicle for the diffusion of African swine fever (Psa) with over 2,3 million animals that besiege cities and countryside from north and south of Italy. This is the alarm launched by the president of Coldiretti Ettore Prandini in the letter to the extraordinary national Commissioner for African swine fever, Angelo Ferrari, asking for integration into the current Priu (the Emergency Action Plan) hunting activity against wild boars "with the use of dogs, in the period from 2022 October 31 to 2023 January XNUMX in the territories subject to restriction".
Coldiretti's warning
Considering the situation of extreme emergency for damages e road accidents caused by wildlife they are totally out of place, they go against the reality of the facts and damage the country proposals to abolish hunting advanced - emphasizes Prandini - for contingent and instrumental political interests.
Pig farms
Reducing the boar species numerically means– he writes Prandini - slow down the spread of ASF in those areas where there is a greater presence of agro-industrial chains linked to pig farms that guarantee income, employment and induced Italy. At risk - concludes Coldiretti - there is a sector that guarantees work for about one hundred thousand people between breeding, processing, transport and distribution with a turnover that is worth 20 billion, a large part of which is achieved on foreign markets.