The long-awaited comparison of the candidates for the presidency of the Region organized by Coldiretti has begun. Only Lucia Chessa (Sardinia R-esiste) is missing, while Renato Soru (Coalizione Sarda), Alessandra Todde (Campo Largo), Paolo Truzzu (centre-right) are present .
The Fair pavilion is full: almost two thousand in the audience. The president of Coldiretti Battista Cualbu and the director Luca Saba introduced the debate.
The formula: eight questions each and four minutes to answer on the topics of agriculture, territorial governance, energy, water, territorial continuity and transport, bureaucracy .
Agriculture, department and agencies
The first question concerns the vision of the Agriculture Department and the reform of the agencies .
Renato Soru is the first to respond. "The department needs to be reorganized and filled with human skills." As for the agencies, the staff has increased but the number of those providing technical assistance in the fields has decreased. We propose to refocus the three agencies, Laore goes back to providing assistance with agronomists and veterinarians, new training is needed. For practices of any origin, a new agency is needed, a single point of contact, and this agency is Argea. Agris, which deals with research, must enter Laore ."
For Alessandra Todde the key word is " discontinuity ": «Skills are needed to understand how to enhance the sector. If we are late on CAP payments, how can we tell a young person who wants to become an agricultural entrepreneur that he can be trusted ." Todde proposes «the reform of the department and agencies, restoring research and not overlapping responsibilities». Furthermore, "the Department of Agriculture cannot be in Cagliari but close to the farmers" .
For Truzzu, " we need to invest in people, but we don't always have the opportunity to choose them. I ask agricultural associations to help us identify people with competence ."
