They are ripe, ready to arrive in the stalls to be sold, after months of work, but they will rot in the fields. It is the end of watermelons pierced by crows that are ravaging farmers' fields of Alghero, Valledoria, Sorso and all the surrounding area. Hours and hours of work and sacrifice thrown to the wind just when it had to be repaid by sales. Same fate for many cultivation of melons.
But the birds are also targeting the vineyards. Incalculable losses that are added to the natural disasters that this year have materialized in these same territories in the guise of the salty wind that it burned the crops and in particular the vineyards, in the fall it was the turn of the tornado and hail. The agricultural sectors are all under attack also by other wild animals, among all the wild boars that run around and devastate the crops every year. "There is a lot of anger among farmers that right at the moment of the harvest, they watch helplessly as the crows are being raided, throwing away their investments and work. The selective killing has not even been planned which, where experienced some results, have given it ”he reports Coldiretti North Sardinia through the mouth of the director Ermanno Mazzetti.
"We cannot continue to procrastinate and passively witness the assaults of the wild that are now out of control - highlights Battista Cualbu, president of Coldiretti North Sardinia -. Immediate and structural decisions must be taken that give concrete answers. Who compensates the farms for these losses? How can they plan and sign agreements with suppliers? How can they be competitive? It is a serious problem that affects all agricultural sectors and the whole Sardinian territory. Today it is the crows that are tormenting and harming companies in different territories, from north to south Sardinia, tomorrow will be wild boars, elsewhere deer, or cormorants and other wild animals ".