«Nutrie and wild boar must be killed". During the forum with the editors of La Provincia, moderated by the director Marco Bencivenga, the Councilor for Agriculture of the Lombardy Region, Fabio Rolfi, did not mince words when addressing the issue of damage from wildlife in agriculture: «Wild boars must be shot, there is no other way. Lombardy has a state-of-the-art regulatory system that allows this, all year round and H24. I am convinced that within a few years we will be able to manage the problem also thanks to the launch of a supply chain of wild boar meat, which we are working on. What do I reply to environmentalists?
That the environment is not protected by pretending nothing has happened, but by governing it. This is true environmental attention. As for the otters, however, there are no possibilities to focus on a meat supply chain. So we need resources to fight them. As a Region we spend between 300 and 500 thousand euros a year to finance local authorities and volunteers.
In recent years we have put millions of euros on the table, but we cannot do more. The national level has never put a euro into it". “Yes, young people are getting closer to agriculture”. The councilor of the Lombardy Region also talks about fake news, new CAP and equating biodigested with fertilizer (La Provincia).