24 hours after the approval by the Government of the provision that regulates the management of theAfrican swine fever emergency, Piedmont region transposed the legislation by immediately approving its own regional plan which provides for the killing by hunters of 3600 wild boars.
“The intervention we were waiting for from Rome has finally arrived - underlined the president of the Piedmont Region Alberto Cirio, who in Acqui Terme met with local authorities and representatives of the sector together with the extraordinary commissioner for African swine fever, Angelo Ferrari, with the parliamentarians and regional councilors of the area - We would have hoped for faster action because in the meantime the Region had to cope with the situation only on one's own strength, from the first ordinances already at the end of January, to the advance of 3 million euros for compensation for breeders who had to cull healthy animals because within the red zone, up to the fund of almost 2 million for agriculture and other damaged realities.
In short, we had to anticipate what was defined at the national level only yesterday with the allocation of first 10 million euros, which will serve to create a containment network to block the passage of infected wild boars from the red area to the uncontaminated ones and to compensate our companies that after the consequences of the covid, the war and the increases in energy and raw materials prices they are now facing this new emergency and cannot be left alone ”.