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Agriculture: start-ups to meet the challenge of succession on farms

2023-02-24T18:27:42.024Z


DECRYPTION - To enable outgoing farmers to find one or more buyers, more and more start-ups are competing in imagination.


The stakes are enormous.

Half of the approximately 400,000 farmers are due to retire within ten years.

It is therefore nearly 20,000 farms per year, on average, which must find one or more buyers.

However, currently, nearly 50% of the farms sold are not taken over and are bought by neighboring farmers for lack of candidates.

They are wiped off the map.

To avoid their gradual disappearance and allow outgoing farmers to find one or more buyers, more and more start-ups are competing in imagination.

Even if it means setting up on the same farm several projects led by different people (breeding, cultivation, and processing) working in synergy.

This is the goal of one of them: Eloi (named after the patron saint of farmers).

“Many farms to be taken over no longer correspond to what young people are looking for because they are too big, their activity is out of step with societal expectations and the land costs too much…

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Source: lefigaro

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