Italy: African swine fever, government immobility which compromises the precious supply chain

“More than a year has passed since the alarm that, as an Action, with a parliamentary question, we had raised regarding the spread of African swine fever in various provinces of the country, and now as then no response has been received from the government. The only dramatic change that has occurred is the increasingly widespread spread of the pathology, which has recently also reached Basilicata, after having plagued Calabria, Campania, Liguria, Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna". Fabrizio Benzoni, Action deputy and signatory of the question in question, declared this in a note. “In addition to the damage, the Italian pig production chain risks mockery: estimated by “Il Sole 24Ore” to be worth over 10 billion euros, 40 thousand jobs and 2 billion euros in exports; it has also had to suffer closures to exports from large international markets such as China", adds the parliamentarian. “Belgium, Luxembourg and France managed to defeat the PSA because they applied the European protocols to ...