Situation out of control
"We ask the Metropolitan City of Turin to act as much as it can and to act diligently towards the Piedmont Region and other competent bodies to put a stop to the spread of wild fauna in the territory. The situation is out of control, farmers are suffering unsustainable damage, without a solution in sight. The first problem is wild boars, which destroy crops and risk spreading the contagion of swine fever to livestock, not to mention the emergency of wolves and roe deer". This is what the provincial president of Cia-Italian Farmers of the Alps, Stefano Rossotto, after yesterday's meeting with the Councilor Delegate for Agriculture of the Metropolitan City of Turin, Alessandro Sicchiero, the manager Elena Di Bella and the officials of the sector. A meeting requested by the same agricultural Organization and in which the provincial representatives of the other trade unions, Coldiretti and Confagricoltura, also participated.
Overlapping skills
"On the containment of wild boars - observes President Rossotto, who spoke together with the provincial director of Cia delle Alpi Luigi Andreis - there is an overlapping of competences, between the Province, the Region and the regional and national commissioners that often complicates the operation of the interventions, with unacceptable buck-passing. We ask for more cullings. Fifteen new provincial guards have been waiting for months to be able to proceed, but some authorization is always missing, due to the usual bureaucratic short circuits, so they remain inactive". Cia-Agricoltori Italiani delle Alpi believes that the reform of Law 157 on hunting, now twenty years old, is essential: "In our opinion - Rossotto and Andreis state - the management of the ATC (Territorial Hunting Areas) should be entrusted to the public hand, the only one without "partisan interests", because the current model actually favors the hunting components, having to guarantee a fauna basin that is 'appetizing' to hunters. Proof of this is that, in the ATC where there are hunting areas reserved for teams, the killings have decreased".
Damage Reimbursement
Above all, the specter of swine fever looms: “In the Turin area - note the president and director of Cia Agricoltori delle Alpi - no cases of contagion have yet occurred, but in the repopulation areas of the municipalities bordering the restricted areas, the culling of wild boars is hindered by a series of limitations that in fact make them ineffective, if not impossible”. Finally, the issue of reimbursements for damage caused by wild fauna: "While it is clear that farmers are interested in not suffering damage, rather than seeking compensation - Rossotto and Andreis underline - the fact remains that in some cases, in ATCs 3, 4 and 5 there are those who have been waiting for payments since 2015, an absurd situation. Just as it is absurd to see reimbursements for damage from the last season blocked, because the sole president of those ATCs, like the previous commissioner, has requested verification of the appraisals, almost as if he did not trust the experts appointed by his own ATCs".
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