Alentejo: Army and Air Force carry straw to fire zones.
The Army and Air Force are to make, from various areas of the Alentejo, the feed transport emergency, straw and feed, for farmers 40 Central Region municipalities, affected by the fires of the last day 15 October.
The foodstuffs for animals, They were purchased by the Ministry of Agriculture and others offered the Alentejo Farmers.
In the case of the Army are engaged 20 units of different valences, 15 transportation and 5 in support services is the logistics bases, determined by the Ministry of Agriculture. The large transport, began on 25 October and the mission will have a duration of 45 days.
Overall coordination is the RAME (Unit Support Emergency Military) and transport made last Thursday, the army involved 118 Military, 10 official, 23 sergeants and 85 squares, Besides 46 Car, 10 light, 2 medium and 30 heavy, and 4 platforms, truck / tractor and truck. This day 2 November were transported 92 tons of hay and straw and 75 tons of feed.
Turn, the Air Force, transported from Santa Vitória, county Beja, 24 tons of straw bales offered by associated farmers of the Farmers Association of Baixo Alentejo (fATHER).
In the two weeks preceding four straw and feed trucks were dispatched to various affected municipalities, including Oliveira do Hospital, offered by members of the South Farmers Association (ACOS), based in Beja, which they provided not only food products for animals, as staff for loading and transport to the destination.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
