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MECOCO Operational Group: Implementation of corrective measures to minimize the negative impact of wild rabbits on agricultural activity

  • Type Operational group
  • Status In progress
  • Execution 2025 -2028
  • Assigned Budget 145.392,00 €
  • Scope Autonómico
  • Autonomous community Aragón
  • Main source of financing CAP 2023-2027
Abstract

This project aims to find a combination of factors that will allow us to control rabbit populations in areas where the economic profitability of farms is being compromised by the damage they cause.

Description

This project aims to find a combination of factors that will allow us to control rabbit populations in areas where the economic profitability of farms is being compromised by the damage they cause.

Objectives

Evaluate corrective measures for rabbit population control in the municipality of Zuera: mass removal of animals, crop synchronization, effect of feeding with different cereal species in direct seeding, safflower cultivation in direct seeding, use of pig slurry in perimeter areas

Contact information
  • Name of entity: Union of Farmers and Livestock Breeders of Aragon (UAGA)
  • Postal address: CALLE ARIAS 34, 50010 Zaragoza
  • Email: UAGA@UAGA-ARAGON.COM
  • Telephone: 976352950
Coordinators
  • Unión de Agricultores y Ganaderos de Aragón (UAGA)