We will put out a tender 100 million euros in favor of agricultural entrepreneurs who will want to equip themselves to build company lakes, desalination plants and wells. Tools that will allow you to face future challenges drought and the other critical issues in the sector which, unfortunately, will continue to afflict our island.” He said it the regional councilor for agriculture Salvatore Barbagallo concluding the event on «Sicily European Region of Gastronomy 2025» which took place at Palazzo Vermexio as part of Expo Divinazione 2024 for the G7 Agriculture in Syracuse.
«Fifty million with the old programming and 50 with the new one which will allow interventions to be carried out that will be able to combat future and certain droughts. We need to maintain the dams. We have 250 million – he added – for works currently under contract. We have 50 million for irrigation networks, one billion 250 ml for approved works and 800 million dedicated only to irrigation.” The councilor also spoke on the reform of the reclamation consortia: «We have made a comparison and we believe that a rationalization of governance with consortia that can function autonomously is the prerequisite for being able to give management to agricultural entrepreneurs. Then the Sicilian assembly will decide.”