More wild boars in the fields, la Bye Campania writes to the regional councilor Nicola Caputo to ask for an extension of the hunting season for wild boars up to 31 January 2022. The request signed by President Alessandro Mastrocinque was forwarded to the owner of the Department of Agriculture, Hunting, Fishing and to the Director General of the Campania Region Agriculture Department Maria Passari.
As specified in a note from the Italian Confederation of Farmers of Campania which underlines “the serious risk rural areas are subjected to due to an exponential presence of wild boars. In fact - continues the Cia Campania note - to the continuous sightings in the fields are added those in the villages and inhabited centers, causing not a few difficulties for agriculture as for safety ".
In particular, the organization highlights the “debt exposure of the Ente Regione per i damage caused by wild boars to crops and road accidents"But also" a health risk for people and especially for pig farms ". And he adds: “In light of the approval by the Campania Region of the Boar Control Plan and the definition of the implementation, Cia Campania asks to extend the salable period for the wild boar species to 31 January 2022 ".