The form of collaboration between the Municipality of Roncoferraro (Mantua) and the agricultural world to enhance the containment action and eradication of nutria. The details of the project that the mayor of Roncoferraro Sergio Rossi and the group leader Dino Bottura had advanced to the trade associations in recent days were illustrated in the conference yesterday morning, at which they were present. Roberto Gandolfi for Coldiretti, Alberto Cortesi and Stefano Salvarani, respectively provincial president and local representative of Confagricoltura, Giuseppe Timolina for Cia and Emanuele Bonora, wildlife operator and sole manager of the Municipality of Roncoferraro.
«Starting from the awareness that the Municipality alone cannot guarantee the sum that every year is needed to combat this rodent, danger for agricultural production, public safety, the embankment of waterways but also for road traffic and, an aspect that is anything but secondary, with the possible risk of contamination of food products, we asked the world for help agriculture and their trade associations for a voluntary contribution aimed at increasing the budget to deal with this emergency. Well, each person interviewed immediately gave their approval, and for this he should be thanked on behalf of the entire community - explains Mayor Rossi -.
With the cash that will enter the coffers of the institution, a fund will be created to be able to intervene preventively and not, as is the case today, to damage that has already occurred ". The extra sum will be used to find the material needed by specialized operators (gloves, cages and compressed air guns) and to give them a refund in certain times. It should be remembered that each operator has a badge, a yellow bib of the Province, a code number and a service order indicating the area of competence and the authorization period. The operators, who have passed through Roncoferraro from 3 to 10 unit, have followed a specific training course. They are all organized in teams; each month the coordinator will draw up a detailed summary, also indicating the hours of service, the kilometers traveled by the teams and the number of checked cages.
For its part, the Parco del Mincio has granted them a permit to intervention on an annual basis, and no longer quarterly as was the case in the past. The objective, as regards the territory of Roncoferraro, is the killing of two thousand specimens year of the pest carelessly imported from South and Central America that causes significant damage to natural wet ecosystems and the agricultural economy. This is a project that other Virgilian administrations could also follow since the problem of containing the nutria is now generalized.