The Sardinian shepherds who supply sheep's milk receive from one euro to 1.20 euro per liter, but the costs of both raw materials and diesel fuel are the most important, together with new outbreaks of Lingua blu which in the island are decimating the farms.

Thanks to the first contracts concluded with the industrialists, the breeders take home a deposit of one euro or a little more, with the coop it even goes up to one euro and 20. The problem remains that of the increase in costs that contribute to the thinning of the earnings.

For example, a quintal of corn today costs an average of 35 euros, while last year it was 25 euros. The cost of fertilizer has gone from 40 euros in 2020 to 75 euros this year, and agricultural diesel from 30 to 55/60 cents per liter.

"Now that we shepherds could see a little breath of fresh air for the increase in the price of milk - say Nenneddu Sanna and Gianuario Falchi, historic spokesmen for shepherds without flags - we find ourselves with a reckless increase in all raw materials, from feed to fertilizers, and seeds as well as fuels. To all this is added the total indifference of politics totally absent. With the appearance of the Blue Language and the persistence of the drought we do not see how one can continue to work in normality. new to block Sardinia to wake up the sleeping dog ", they conclude.

(Unioneonline / ss)