Circulated in three flocks
The boundaries of the fields are neither defined nor stored by fences in the upper thunder of Serres. Each herbivore animal strives cultivated areas, gardens and destroys production. The reason for about 70 horses, which are circulating in three herds, as Vasilis Michtsoglou-chairman of the community says. “Many horses, many problems, because we are in the sowing of potato sowing and the horses excavate the ground with their hooves, uproot and eat the plants.”
Her journalist ERT Vassilis Anastasiadis records the activity from the most mountain village in the prefecture of Serres at an altitude of 1060 meters.
Some horses had previously had a capistor, which means they were dominant and their owners were free from the burden of maintaining them by leaving them in nature, explains Mr Michtsoglou.
Simos Kasitsoglou, a farmer, a resident of Ano Vrontou, saw his production, broccoli, beans and potatoes being destroyed and with them disappearing his financial prospects. “Horses are 300 meters from the fields and growers cannot remove them, nor can they be in the fields 24 hours in the fields to prevent them.”
A solution must be found, at least temporary to start sowing, the farmers point out and propose that local authorities are moving the horses. How feasible is such a solution? Reasonable questions are raised. Where to move? At what point could they survive without disturbing farmers? And how can they be limited to an area?
