SRM, a study center linked to the Intesa Sanpaolo group, has drawn up a research on the Italian bioeconomic supply chain. This study showed that Friuli Venezia-Giulia, Tuscany and the Marches are the most bio-friendly regions in Italy, followed by Veneto, Emilia-Romagna and Umbria.
The ranking was created by putting in first place the importance that the fully and partially organic sectors have on the regional GDP together with the level of bioeconomic transition of individual regions, that is the change, thanks to technological innovation, of a sector from partially to totally organic.
The ranking sees a first group formed by the aforementioned regions, characterized by a great attention to bio and with a high bio-economic transition process, which is followed by the second group of regions (Abruzzo, Puglia, Basilicata, Trentino Alto-Adige, Molise, Sardinia and Calabria) that have a high biofootprint but a low level of bioeconomic transition. In the last positions we find a group formed by Lombardy, Piedmont, Campania and Sicily, while even further down are the Valle D'Aosta, Liguria and Lazio.
Within the research it was specialized that those regions such as Lombardy, Lazio and Campania, which have a varied industrial specialization and which diversify production, tend to be penalized within the classification due to the parameters on which it is based .
At the national level, the bioeconomy has a value of approx one hundred billion euros and count beyond two million workers. These sums place Italy in the first places among the countries in Europe for the incidence of the bioeconomy within its economic system, to be exact 8% for employment and 6,4% of added value.
In the national bioeconomy the agri-food sector it represents the activity with greater importance, as well as the most widespread, especially in the South, where it constitutes an added value to the local economy equal to 79%, against 62% of the national value.
Il PNRR represents an enormous opportunity to relaunch the bio-economy sector because it will allocate the largest portion of the funds to the country's ecological transaction. This is 59,47 billion euros to which another 9,16 billion from the Complementary Plan and 1,31 billion from React EU will be added. In Italy, almost 33% of the funds will be allocated to the Noon. The latter will therefore have a primary role in the country's green transition due to the opportunities it can create and the increase in the bioeconomic footprint of the Italian economy.
