Animal handling at risk again, and once again Sardinian farmers are paying the price.
The problem of the movement of sheep and cattle, allowed only after a PCR test on each animal , due to the constraints imposed by the Region on animal diseases, from Blue Tongue to Hemorrhagic, is re-emerging throughout the island, but especially between Nuorese and Oristano of the deer .
To be affected by these measures, underlines Coldiretti Sardegna, are the Sardinian farms that are already facing the strong increases in prices and which today would be even more in difficulty due to the high costs of the tests.
"The Region will find a solution in a short time , suited to the needs of businesses and not to the dilated ones of politics, to overcome this problem - says Battista Cualbu, president of Coldiretti Sardinia - breeders cannot be forced to have to bear such high costs to carry out PCR tests on all garments or even stop the movement of animals », he adds.
Precisely in the event of a halt to movement " farmers would risk further serious damage considering that they must comply with European standards on grazing and cross-compliance " adds Cualbu. In short, in addition to the damage, insult.
«It is now up to the councilorship - concludes Cualbu - the task of finding a solution and overcoming these bureaucratic quibbles that jeopardize the economic activities of the many farms that have been transhumance for hundreds of years and, in this period in particular , bring the animals back to their own land. Whether it is with an explanatory note or with a decree, immediate action is needed ».
(Unioneonline/vl)
