50 million euros needed for breeders in Italy

At least 50 million euros are needed to combat the African Swine Fever (ASF) emergency, which is threatening a strategic sector of the Italian agri-food industry. This is the appeal launched by President Ettore Prandini at the meeting “Defending livestock farming to defend agriculture”, organized by Coldiretti for the inauguration of the Fazi in Montichiari, the most important Italian event at an international level dedicated to livestock farming. An opportunity to take a look at the difficult moment of Fattoria Italia, hit by a series of emergencies including ASF, bluetongue disease and avian flu, with a toll that to date speaks of one hundred thousand pigs, almost forty thousand sheep and over one hundred and eighty thousand turkeys slaughtered, according to the Coldiretti analysis based on data from the Epidemiological Bulletin. A devastating impact on the budgets of national livestock farms, which puts at risk a sector worth over 55 billion euros and makes it necessary to ...