«For the locust emergency, prevention actions are needed, immediately. And we are ready."

This was stated by the Councilor for Agriculture Valeria Satta , who was present this morning in Ottana and Nuoro for two separate meetings on the management of the problem: «For too long now the farmers of the Nuoro area have been waiting for concrete action in the area. For this reason, this morning, together with the mayor of Ottana , I wanted to meet them to report to them the actions envisaged by the plan that the Laore agency will implement in two phases: monitoring and action . It is an absolutely innovative plan from a technological point of view, so we have an excellent chance of winning this challenge».

The commissioner met with the mayor of the country of masks , Franco Saba and the general manager of the Laore agency, Gerolamo Solina . With him he illustrated the actions of the plan developed by the regional agency with the collaboration of the University of Sassari , the Phytosanitary Service of the Agriculture Department and the FAO. For the first phase of monitoring , the identification of grillare is envisaged with the possibility of signaling their presence with geolocation systems that will be supervised by the Ottana operations center where the procedures to hit the insect nests will be activated. And from tomorrow, the technicians of the Laore agency will begin the operational meetings , in the various municipalities of the Nuoro area, with which they will illustrate to the operators involved the correct methods for carrying out the various operations.

The councilor then went to Nuoro to meet the prefect Giancarlo Dionisi , who guaranteed the availability of some army and fire brigade teams, to support the 185 units deployed by the Sardinia Region to fight the emergency . "I sincerely thank the Prefect of Nuoro for the great sense of responsibility and the profound sensitivity shown towards the problem, for which he has requested the intervention of the army, which will support us in monitoring and controlling the territory ", he said declared Valeria Satta at the end of the meeting. A technical table followed with the Fire Brigade, representatives of the Province of Nuoro and the army, in which the role that the latter will have in the operations was discussed. " I will discuss today with President Solinas , who has this emergency at heart, on the success of today's meetings and on the subsequent coordination of operations", concluded the commissioner.

(Unioneonline/vf)

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