“In a couple of years we won't have any more grain crops in Umbria": This is the alarm launched by CIA-Italian Farmers of Umbria regarding thewild boar emergency. “There are those who have been forced to abandon the production of corn, sorghum and sunflower for some years now; to bear the costs of the electric fence for save the core and, finally, to see the entire field just sown with durum wheat destroyed.
These are only the latest reports - explains the farmers' association - that they come from the associated agricultural entrepreneurs of the regional territory, which are faced with the increasing damage of wildlife, wild boars in the first place. A condition that is also reflected in the latest data published by Italmopa, the Italian Millers' Association, according to which this year the decline in Italian durum wheat production it is 10%, which is why if we only used Italian production, we would find pasta for sale only four months a year.