An 11-year wait
The real porceddu can finally return to national and European tables with the green light for Sardinian pigs which after more than 11 years can be exported outside the regional borders. This is what Coldiretti announces. It expresses satisfaction with the vote in favor of the European Commission's proposal for the revision of the restrictions imposed on the Sardinia to combat the spread of African swine fever. These limitations also concerned - underlines Coldiretti - also the slaughtering of pigs raised in Sardinia and the processing of the relative meat, as well as the shipment of the same and of the products obtained from them, towards the rest of the Community territory.
The plague of swine fever
A duqnue stop also for the "porcheddu" or "porceddu", often Italianized with the term "porcetto", which is a classic of Sardinian pastoral cuisine and is obtained by slow cooking and spit roasting of a 4-year-old suckling pig or 5 kilos in weight or twenty days old, flavored with myrtle or rosemary after cooking. In fact, it was from 11 November 2011 that - recalls Coldiretti - Sardinia could not export pigs (live or slaughtered) outside its borders with swine fever appearing for the first time on the island in the now distant 1978 in southern Sardinia, which presumably from the Iberian Peninsula through food waste arrived in the port of Cagliari or the military airport of Decimomannu and then spread to the internal areas of the island with transhumance.
Sardinian farms
Today Sardinia has 164 heads and 12.900 farms - according to Coldiretti's elaborations on data from the National Zootechnical Database - and is the third region in terms of number of farms while it falls to seventh place in terms of number of heads. The green light is the result of years of joint work by Coldiretti with the public administrations which must continue to overcome the blocks still present to restart a sector that can count on resilient and innovative companies, many of which are young people who have invested despite everything courageously and believed in the sector and today they represent a virtuous example of biosafety breeding (source: Coldiretti).
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