They are ninety thousand Italian companies under 35 born in the first nine months of 2016. This is confirmed by the analysis of Coldiretti based on Movimprese data, according to which companies of this type rise to almost 600 thousand, creating new job opportunities to fight unemployment.
The positive balance is 50 youth businesses since in the face of the birth of about 90 thousand new young companies, less than 40 thousand closed their doors in the same period. Furthermore, it is significant that from a territorial point of view - Coldiretti specifies - the largest number of new youth businesses - Coldiretti specifies - was born in the South (34.334) followed by the North West (21.611), by the center (18.064) and from the north east (13.937).
The presence of young people - underlines Coldiretti - is concentrated in the small medium enterprises (SMEs) which, moreover, represent 99,9% of the total number of companies in Italy. In the top five sectors preferred by young entrepreneurs - continues Coldiretti - retail trade (10.999), agriculture and livestock (7.569), specialized construction (7.094), the restaurant business (4.717) rise in order 2.882) and personal services (2016), based on the new openings that occurred in the first nine months of XNUMX.
Today, almost one company out of ten run by young people in Italy operates in agriculture (8,4%) where there are as many as 50.543 run by under 35s due to the growing interest of young people in work in the countryside which has extended to the transformation and to commerce, with the boom in direct sales by farmers of zero-kilometre products. A reality favored by the law of orientation for agriculture (the law 228/2001).
70 percent of under 35 businesses operate in activities ranging from corporate transformation of products to direct sales, from educational farms to agri-kindergartens, but also to recreational activities such as garden care and cooking classes in the countryside, social agriculture for the inclusion of disabled people, prisoners and drug addicts, the arrangement of parks, gardens, roads, agro-wellness and landscape care or the production of renewable energies.
