Freshly planted olive trees uprooted and destroyed. One meter holes, and loose ground in another olive groves. These are some of the results visible to the naked eye, after the passage of a herd of wild boars, in some olive groves of the Val d'Orcia (Siena). Unfortunately - say the farmers who made the images - it is a custom, not to mention even more serious damage in wheat fields and vineyards. Today, as never before, demolitions are necessary, which instead in this area of Tuscany seem not to exist or to be in small and insufficient measure.
A situation that comes after a 2020 in which, due to Covid-19, one has practically never shot himself and with the number of ungulates and wild animals increased dramatically. In the province of Siena on average there are culls for 20-30 thousand heads a year, this year we will have thousands more wild boars than average, with damage to agricultural crops on the increase.
Farmers are exhausted and disheartened: many of them are also willing to hunt directly, within private property, even if they never fired. There are also those who have completely changed cultivation, choosing crops that are not attacked by wild boars; in short, we are at the paradox, so we go towards the abandonment of agriculture (Agricultura.it).