The shepherds expected in Cagliari on 20 October will arrive from all over Sardinia in the demonstration announced in Tramatza a week ago and convened in front of the Regional Council in via Roma , at 11, to protest against the difficulties of the agro-pastoral sector and to urge immediate action . Two thousand people are expected.
A "claim not only aimed at the sheep and goats, but at all", say the farmers, who also asked for a meeting with the group leaders in the Regional Council: "Sardinian politicians must assume their responsibilities. On Thursday we will be in front of the Palazzo della Regione for express all our discontent, and seek solutions . We will present a document to them, and then send it to the Ministry and the European Commission for Agriculture, so that everyone is aware of the disaster. We will leave our companions, moving from all over Sardinia to arrive in front of that Palace, and shout out everything we are undergoing ".
"Ours - they add - is a sector reduced to the limit by a dormant policy , or worse absent, a policy that should have protected us as workers and citizens. We trust in reaching one or more solutions, useful for making us survive, we are not assisted as we have sometimes tried to paint ourselves, we are custodians of the territory, we are people who have invested body and soul in their work; we want to produce and improve our economy, we do not seek welfare ".
In the sights of the increases in the prices of raw materials, energy and fuels, the issue of aid to the agro -pastoral sector with the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) 2023-2027 with the exclusion of the sheep and goat sector from the ecosystem 1 level 2, the lack of convergence of payments direct resources, the RDP resources (Sardinia will receive 115 million euros less than in the previous programming) and the almost total exclusion of sheep and goats for which "only 11 million euros were allocated for the entire sector (just over 1 euro each) "for the funds of the crisis resulting from the war between Ukraine and Russia.
