Agriculture, opportunities for around 600 young people: 14 thousand hectares of land for sale

Bureaucratic simplifications and payment in instalments to encourage young farmers to join. The eighth edition of the Banca Nazionale delle Terre Agricole (BTA), the tool through which Ismea (the market services institute supervised by Masaf, the ministry) enhances and puts back into circulation its land assets, offering new investment opportunities in the agricultural sector to all those interested, with particular attention to the new generations, starts with a package of simplifications and incentives.

A measure, this, in line with the directives of the Meloni government and the Ministry of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Forestry, to have more and more land available to those who want to cultivate it, as well as one of Ismea's main functions. Over 14 thousand hectares of land, corresponding to about 571 potential farms, will be made available in this edition, for a total auction base value of over 180 million euro.

Among the main innovations of this edition is the reduction of the time for transmitting expressions of interest, from 90 to 30 days, and of the period for submitting economic offers, from 45 to 30 days, to make the procedures more streamlined and efficient. Another innovative element concerns young farmers who benefit from the payment in instalments on the sale price of land from the Agricultural Land Bank.

But very important are the regulatory simplifications with in particular the elimination of the requirement, for young farmers wishing to access the facility, of registration with the agricultural social security system as a direct cultivator or principal agricultural entrepreneur (IAP). The latter aspect in fact restricted applications to those who are already agricultural entrepreneurs, limiting the access of new players and therefore the creation of new farms from scratch.

Instead, the intervention is expected to significantly extend the number of under-41 beneficiaries by favouring the entry of new generations into the agricultural sector.