Corn by The Road Causing Accidents

Environmental Protection Agency to restrict roadside plantations of crops like corn, peas and beans because they both obstruction and attract wild pigs.

- Hopefully, it would increase opportunities for motorists to see wild pigs and thus have greater opportunity to slow down and avoid accidents, “says Christer Pettersson, who is responsible for the management of wild boar Environmental Protection Agency.

Peter Borring, county chairman of the national federations of farmers’ Östergötland is mildly hostile to the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal:

- It is pure hell in Swedish. It is trying to focus on other things than the real problem. We can always try to steer the pigs here and there, but we need to see to bring down wild boar population.

Profit or loss?
In addition, he says, it would affect farmers’ profits:

 - Roads are often drawn where it is good farmland and the plan is not much left to grow on.

But Christer Pettersson looks rather that it would be more profitable for farmers, as attractive areas where crops are grown very wild boar helps that cause extensive damage to the crop:

- I see a win-win situation of trying to reduce the attractiveness of the crop and thus reduce the risk of accidents.