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According to the last national agricultural census, in 2010 there was 891,000 people employed in agriculture, mostly men (71.3% of the total) and resident in Southern Italy (46.8% of the total). [6] In 2010 the Italian agricultural area was equal to 17,800,000 ha (43,984,758 acres), of which 12,700,000 ha (31,382,383 acres) are used, and is ...
The Agro Nocerino-Sarnese or Agro Sarnese-Nocerino [1] is a geographical region of the Province of Salerno, in Campania in southern Italy; the river Sarno flows through it. It is a low-lying area bounded to the south by the Monti Lattari, to the east and north-east by the Monti Picentini and to the west by the plain of Vesuvius.
In 2016, southern Italy's GDP and economy was growing twice as much as northern Italy's. [53] According to Eurostat figures published in 2019, southern Italy is the European area with the lowest percentages of employment: in Apulia, Sicily, Campania and Calabria, less than 50% of the people aged between 20 and 64 had a job in 2018. That is ...
Tourism is key sector for Abruzzo economy: in this photo Campotosto Lake. Over the years, Abruzzo has become the most industrialized region of southern Italy [1] and has had significant improvements and growth also at an economic level; the region has reached and surpassed many Italian regions in the specialization of the various industrial sectors and today it is the richest of the regions of ...
Drought and unusually hot weather have raised the salinity in Italy’s largest delta, where the mighty Po River feeds into the Adriatic Sea south of Venice, and it’s killing rice fields along ...
Before 1860 there was hardly a trace of large industry throughout the peninsula. Lombardy, now so proud of its industries, had almost nothing but agriculture; Piedmont was an agricultural and thrifty land, at least in the habits of its citizens. Central Italy, southern Italy and Sicily were in a very modest state of economic development.
By 1865, there was a definitive shift from the custom of sheep farming in favour of an agricultural economy. The historical lack of water resources was solved with the construction of the Apulian aqueduct in 1924, when Foggia was already an important hub between northern and southern Italy.
Campania [a] is an administrative region of Italy located in Southern Italy; most of it is in the south-western portion of the Italian Peninsula (with the Tyrrhenian Sea to its west), but it also includes the small Phlegraean Islands and the island of Capri. The capital of the Campania region is Naples. [6]