300,000 euros from the government for last year’s drought
Of Monica Fabbri
April 3, 2022
Let’s hear from Stefano Canti
Congress approves an allocation of 300 thousand euros as a contribution to Drought of 2021, “a signal of the Government’s attention towards farmers, to try to do even more the activity that our small territory is about to do” – comments the Secretary Stefano Canti. But it’s not just the drought that worries the agricultural sector. The surge of energy costs consequence of the war in Ukraine weighs heavily on balance sheets of companies, already in difficulty due to increases in production costs and the prices of raw materials.
The sector is launching a cry of alarm: the crisis does not affect only San Marino but all of Europe. A recent report from the CreateItalian research body supervised by the Ministry of Agricultural Policies, estimates that the 30% of companies in the sector are likely to close in negative.
Returning to the Titan, the May 2nd the call for tenders for the concession of 50 hectares of public land for the activity of biological agriculture, which the Secretariat to the Territory wants to address to those sectors in which San Marino depends on the outside, “in order to reduce the cost of raw materials – explains Canti – above all and to bring an increasingly pushed direction in our agriculture in the organic sector” . Hence the appeal of the Secretary, so that the answer is as participatory as possible. Then the reflection on water supply returns, and the challenge of autonomy for a state that imports most of the water it uses.
In the past, there has been a lot of talk about the catchment area of Gorgascura. In the last press conference of the Congress, Canti stated that it is necessary to identify an area where to create it, so that it has less impact. On 12 and 13 April, with the colleague Lonfernini will participate in the Geneva eventUnece Precisely on the theme of water for the 2030 Agenda. An opportunity for objectives, objectives and plans that the member nations are putting in place, “and in particular, for our small territory, to identify a definitive strategy, to be included also in the context of new master plan “.
In the service Stefano Canti – Secretary of State for the Territory
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