Twenty thousand thousand hectares of agricultural land in 14 Italian regions put up for auction.
The sixth edition of the Banca Nazionale delle Terre Agricole (BTA) of Ismea, the Institute of Services for the Agricultural Food Market, has been launched.
Simple, telematic procedures for accessing land with an auction base of 260 million euros until 5 June;
an auction open to all
with the
possibility for entrepreneurs under 41 to obtain an installment payment of the purchase price up to 30 years.
The watchword is generational turnover in agriculture, as Italy is below the European average with just 13.4% of agricultural business owners under the age of 44, as emerges from the 2020 Istat census and are precisely companies managed by young people to be characterized by the highest degree of capitalization and propensity for innovation, coinciding with an important technology transfer on the fields.
There will be time until 5 June to participate in the purchase of land located mainly in Sicily, which alone concentrates 36% of the surfaces, for a total of over 7,100 hectares and an auction value of over 100 million EUR;
the provinces most involved are Caltanissetta and Catania with respectively 21% and 19% of the surfaces.
Followed by Sardinia with over 2,250 hectares, with the south of the island in the lead with 47%;
Puglia with more than 1,782 hectares, led by the province of Foggia with 20%.
And then Basilicata with over 1,418 hectares, Calabria with more than 1,181 hectares, Tuscany with 2,513, Lazio with 875 hectares, Emilia Romagna with 983 hectares and Campania with 190 hectares.