Wild Boar Hunt: Coldiretti Pesaro meets with the Prefect to discuss the problem of damage to crops and the GMO danger.
This is the request made by Coldiretti Pesaro Urbino to the Prefect of Pesaro, Alessio Giuffrida, during a meeting attended by the president Tommaso Di Sante and the director Leandro Grazioli.
"Faced with an increasingly dramatic situation in the countryside, the Region has accepted our requests by inviting Provinces and nature reserves to start a period of extraordinary wild boar hunting, with the aim of reducing the number and the impact on the ecosystem as much as on economic activities - explained the provincial president of Coldiretti -. However, the provision has no value in the Furlo area, as it is a national park ".
This has generated a situation whereby the wild boars are able to carry out nocturnal raids, devastating the fields and then return to the protected area.
"Hence our request to the Prefect to intervene at the Ministry to unblock the situation and allow the prevention activity to be extended also to the Furlo area, as also requested by the Province - continues Di Sante -, putting an end to a situation that it risks closing their doors to many companies, which today see their fields destroyed every day and which could thus abandon the mountain territory at risk not only of instability, but also of depopulation ".
During the meeting, the leaders of Coldiretti Pesaro also submitted to the Prefect a document on the issue of genetically modified organisms, which returned to the center of the discussion after the EU authorized the cultivation of the first transgenic potato.
“Today our territory develops an agri-food model of great quality, safety and identity - recalled the director Leandro Grazioli -. The introduction of GMOs represents a risk that calls these principles into question: it is not useful to farmers, it is not useful to consumer citizens, it is not useful to the country ".
Coldiretti therefore asks the authorities to initiate the procedure to request the European Commission for the safeguard clause with which to block the marketing and cultivation of the biotech potato in our territories, ready to implement any legislative or referendum initiative to continue to keep the province free. from genetically modified crops.
Source: Wines and Flavors