This year's locust invasion will harm approximately 50,000 hectares of crops, grasses, and pastures in Central Sardinia, threatening farmers' and breeders' incomes. Coldiretti, which organized a blitz in Noragugume, a region of Nuoro selected by FAO specialists to evaluate areas hit by the locust infestation, has denounced this. "In the last five years, the land affected by this scourge has increased by 25 times, and the rural world's rage for the evolution of an emergency that rages on three provinces of the Region (along with Nuoro, Sassari, and Oristano) and is already causing serious damage to productions is growing." Coldiretti criticizes "slow actions on all fronts, exacerbated by the unacceptable loss of time due to the chaotic management of the locust phenomenon and the rebound of responsibilities between bodies and departments. A management that has enabled the situation to worsen year after year, putting farms and cattle at risk."
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