Bologna, 08 March –
Coldiretti Emilia Romagna’s mimosas for the Virtus Segafredo Bologna girls, “a gesture,” says Coldiretti Emilia Romagna Regional Director, Marco Allaria Olivieri, “testifying to the importance of women, not only in the world of agriculture, but also in the world of sport.”
On the occasion of Women’s Day on 8 March, Coldiretti Emilia Romagna paid homage to the Virtus Segafredo Bologna women’s team, handing them mimosas, the symbol of the day that celebrates women, their strength, determination and role in society.
I would like to thank the Regional Director of Coldiretti Emilia Romagna, Marco Allaria Olivieri, for this precious tribute to our women’s team,’ says V Nere CEO Luca Baraldi. ‘As I have always maintained Virtus is one, there are not two and they are equally important. This is why we want to celebrate International Women’s Day, to remind us once again of the value of gender equality, all the more so in the world of sport.”
There are more than 202,000 enterprises led by women in agriculture in Italy, which surprisingly enters the top five of the sectors with the highest rate of feminisation in the ranking compiled by the Unioncamere and InfoCamere Observatory for Women’s Entrepreneurship, after various services, health, education and accommodation/restaurant. Almost three out of ten agricultural enterprises (28%) are led by women, whose presence has grown especially in the new food and environmental education activities with schools, agri-nurseries, educational farms, rural pet-therapy courses, and educational vegetable gardens, but also in precision agriculture and low environmental impact agriculture, up to the presence in Campagna Amica direct sales markets. Women who have chosen agriculture,’ Coldiretti points out, ‘demonstrate the ability to combine the rules of the economic context in which they work with respect for the environment, protection of the quality of life, attention to social issues, in contact with nature together with the valorisation of typical local products and biodiversity.
