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Commissioner and councilor meet 50 buffalo breeders from Campania

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A meeting with around 50 buffalo breeders from Caserta, promoted by the extraordinary commissioner for the application of the eradication programme of the brucellosis In Campania, General Luigi Cortellessa, the meeting was held this morning in the presence of the regional councilor for Agriculture Nicola Caputo, the director of the Experimental Zooprophylactic Institute of Southern Italy Antonio Limone, the heads of the regional veterinary departments and the Caserta local health authority and the general director of the Land Reclamation Consortium of the lower Volturno basin, Camillo Mastracchio.

During the meeting, General Cortellessa illustrated all the activities implemented to achieve the objectives established by the Dgrc n.

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104/2022 and support farmers, including: biosecurity guidelines and epidemiological investigations, in collaboration with the Caserta Local Health Authority, the IZSM (Institute for the Prevention and Control of Diseases), and the ARPAC (Agricultural and Environmental Protection Agency); implementation of state prophylaxis and the mandatory vaccination program, which currently involves approximately 4 inoculations of animals aged 6-9 months on over 160 Caserta farms; on-site inspections for restocking of farms subjected to stamping-out; extraordinary cleaning of public waterworks, with the assistance of, among others, the Volturno Land Reclamation Consortium; the upcoming program for the collection of livestock effluent from infected farms, through safe transport and delivery to biodigesters, which will subject the waste to special treatments aimed at inactivating pathogens. streamlining the bureaucratic process for paying culling fees, led by Major Vincenzo Pascarella; a daily helpline; and traveling information and training activities on biosecurity and farm management, which, to date, have attracted 176 farmers during the 15 meetings held at various local health authorities (ASL) in the Caserta area.

Councilor Caputo discussed the upcoming Rural Development Program and the economic support for livestock farmers that the Campania Region, at the express request of President Vincenzo De Luca, has strongly supported to support livestock farms affected by brucellosis. Limone expressed his full willingness to engage with livestock farmers to overcome the brucellosis emergency together. Mastracchio illustrated the ordinary and extraordinary drainage cleanup activities carried out at the request of the Special Commissioner's office.

A statement explains, "Most of the farmers, many of them young, were able to engage directly with all the institutions present, asking numerous questions that were promptly answered by those present. All the proposals put forward by those present will be carefully considered by General Cortellessa, Deputy Commissioner Captain Michele Valentino Chiara, and the entire staff, in a spirit of total sharing and collaboration, to try to resolve, once and for all, the brucellosis problem, which unfortunately has persisted for several decades and has never been definitively resolved."

[reproduction_reserved] Article published on February 23, 2023 - 14:10 PM - A. Carlino [combined_source]

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