(ANSA) - NUORO, FEBRUARY 22 - "Today's summit will be an opportunity to plan an intervention to eradicate grasshoppers in central Sardinia, a social and economic emergency that has brought farmers and breeders to their knees since 2017. We are ready to deploy the Army before may discontent turn into an emergency on the public safety front".
The prefect of Nuoro, Giancarlo Dionisi, has clear ideas on how to deal with the plague of locusts on the island: in 2022, 60 thousand hectares were affected by the invasion and this year there is a risk of reaching 100 thousand hectares if the phenomenon is not managed with due precision .
This is where targeted disinfestations come into play, also through the use of drones to identify the hotbed areas and those of the insects' nocturnal return.
On the use of drones in agro-sanitary operations, however, it will be necessary to obtain government exemptions.
Dionisi has convened a technical table for 1.30pm with the regional councilors for Agriculture and the Environment, Valeria Satta and Marco Porcu, the heads of the Sassari Brigade, the Laore and Forestas agencies, the Province of Nuoro, the firefighters and the local mayors.
A preparatory meeting for field interventions for which the Region will employ 185 men to whom those from the Civil Protection and Army teams will be added. 25 million - the prefect explains to ANSA - There are families on their knees in an area that affects 26 countries. I have already spoken to the commander of Sassari Giuseppe Bossa who has given me the willingness to intervene. The Region must do the rest,
From the world of campaigns comes applause for the task force put in place.
"We need a war cabinet to intervene: in a few weeks - warns the president of Confagricolture Paolo Mele - the hatching of the larvae could generate problems of public order in the Nuoro area, in the upper Oristano area and in the Sassari area".
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