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Exploring the Significance of Entrepreneurship in Agriculture
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Modern agriculture in Italy needs to find new opportunities and an alternative ...... In today’s agriculture, even family-run farm businesses are taking on ...
www.esofarmers.org/documents/de-wolf-schorlemmer-2007-esof_... -

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Note added at 36 mins (2008-03-02 14:11:15 GMT)
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i.e. not employing workers from outside the family, although this system is breaking down somewhat acc. to the link above: "... During the workshop, participants added “people management” as an important skill with regard to
the entrepreneurial personality. In today’s agriculture, even family-run farm businesses are taking on
employees to help with the work, as the traditional structures of such businesses are breaking down
(fewer children, second job). Managing these employees correctly poses new challenges for the farm
manager that have to be learned and practised...."

and cf.:

del resto gli stessi dati diffusi dall'INPS - che ha iscritto a ruolo quasi 90.000 imprese agricole assuntrici di mano d'opera (pari a 1 su 2) e circa 130.000 imprese dirette coltivatrici pari a 1 su 3) - avvalorano le nostre risultanze in merito all'elevato tasso di errore contenuto nelle cartelle; appare infatti improbabile che una percentuale così elevata di imprese agricole, in questa sola prima tranche di riscossione, risulti debitrice dell'Istituto Previdenziale;

http://legislature.camera.it/_dati/leg14/lavori/stenografici...

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Note added at 4 hrs (2008-03-02 17:59:39 GMT)
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it has something to do with a category /definition of landholding, I think - here are some refs., I don't have time to look more now; I am merely going by what I found in my research - I don't know whether it necessarily means family-run but that tends to be how they are/were, I presume.; maybe "owner-run/managed"


The 2000 survey registered a traditional predominance of undertakings managed by the owner (2,457,960 companies, i.e. 94.7% of the total number), where 81.3% has a workforce made up by the owner’s family members.
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/studies/tn0608017s/it060...

http://wai.inps.it/Doc/Pubblicazioni/IP/2_2001.htm

http://www.giurcost.org/decisioni/1985/0103s-85.html
http://www.ittig.cnr.it/BancheDatiGuide/stop/stopd91.htm

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Note added at 4 days (2008-03-07 08:06:00 GMT) Post-grading
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I agree, I think it's something like: owner-run without external workforce