Farmers, to face the current water crisis, can submit the application to access the total funding of 15 million euros by September 30thforeseen in the latest financial maneuver. The Department of Agriculture has in fact published the notice that includes among the interventions that can be financed in capital account the creation of hillside lakes, new wells or the restoration of existing ones, the purchase of pumps or motor pumps and similar, the creation of mini desalination plants”. The announcement was made by the Hon. Carmelo Pace, leader of the DC group at the ARS.
“I thank the commissioner for the water emergency, Dario Caltabellotta, for having signed the measure within the expected time. These are important resources for a sector, the agricultural and livestock sector, which in Sicily represents one of the main activities, a backbone of the economy, and which in recent months has been at risk of collapse. We strongly wanted the measure because, in an anomalous season with very little rainfall, farmers and entire companies have been put to the test and it is right to provide resources for those who have decided once again to face the problems not by remaining inert, but by carrying out useful works to deal with the crisis. I thank President Schifani for his attention to the agricultural world and Councilor Barbagallo who immediately took action, the day after his appointment, to try to deal with the situation”.