Between 2010 and 2020, “agricultural companies in Basilicata decreased by almost a third (-32.4 percent); in particular, companies under 50 hectares of useful agricultural surface area decreased, and above all micro- holdings of up to two hectares (-53.2 percent of holdings and -50.1 percent of useful agricultural area)”: the Cia farmers of Basilicata said this in a note.
This is – according to the trade organization – “a more marked phenomenon in the most disadvantaged mountain and hilly areas where family businesses or those with a single owner are the vast majority. In this context, new resources and a political strategy aimed at relaunching of internal mountain areas are a priority”. Referring to “investments supported directly by farmers, the Lucanian companies that have made at least one innovative investment in the three-year period 2018-2020 are approximately 1.9 thousand, equal to 5.4 percent of regional agricultural companies, a significantly lower share than the national one (eleven percent). The companies that invest in mechanization are 58.4 percent of those that innovate; this is the main method, consistent with the national distribution of the first eight most widespread types of investment at an Italian level, followed for Basilicata by planting and sowing (21.7 percent), soil processing (19.8 percent) and irrigation (15.3 percent). hundred); even at a national level, investments in soil cultivation are more widespread than those in irrigation”.
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