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We’re talking about small businesses in low-tech and consumption of capital, and with limited direct sales in territories often considered marginal. Farms forgotten at the margins of the productive economy, which in Italy are historically very strong. According to the recent census ISTAT on Italian agriculture, 67% of Italian farms had a gross income of less than EUR 10 000 and is by its very nature excluded from European incentive policies. To this must be added the auto-productions of many agricultural informal practices, which provide food for auto-consumption and non-monetary exchange and which have not yet been estimated. Can you still ignore a reality that, according to Istat, employs more than 3.5 million people?
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