Drought, farmers in the square in Cagliari: «5 thousand cultivable hectares at risk»
The shadow of new restrictions remains. The demonstration outside the Prefecture, a table has been requested to address the emergencyFarmers in the square in Cagliari looking for a hearing. After the (unfulfilled) request to the regional departments of Agriculture and Public Works to convene a table to address the drought emergency, the Cagliari section of Coldiretti met this morning in front of the Prefecture. "This year too, the Cagliari area risks heavy restrictions in terms of the availability of water for irrigation, we risk losing 5 thousand hectares of cultivable land ", the words of director Giuseppe Casu .
"There are important resources that are currently not used, I am thinking of some wells and waste water. We also need to strengthen the water collection system, to adapt the storage capacity to the rainfall that is now concentrated in short periods."
A delegation of protesters around 11 had a meeting with the prefect Giuseppe Castaldo. "He understood the criticality of the problem, if the table is not convened he assured us that it will be activated", explains the president of Coldiretti Cagliari Giorgio Demurtas. "Climate change must be addressed, we cannot always live in an emergency. We must also plan for the young people who will do this job in the future".