500 young farmers last year received as much as 25,000 euros, money provided by the EU for the creation of new agricultural businesses, but only three in ten started a business from scratch in the field of agriculture, with the rest preferring to expand their business or modernise it. Thus, while the "25,000 euros for young people" scheme was devised to encourage them to return to rural areas, a ZF survey indicates most of them are small entrepreneurs who already have businesses in the field of agriculture, and not young people who give up their city jobs to work the land. The money is simple to obtain: even if EU financing does not entirely cover investments in a farm, the big advantage is that the sum of up to 25,000 euros does not have to be returned. Moreover, farmers only have to prove in three years that they invested at least 30% of this sum in agriculture. This is why many farmers aged below 40, who already had businesses in this field, preferred to apply for this aid instead of trying to get money from banks to modernise farms and then get the money from the EU.

500 young farmers last year received as much as 25,000 euros, money provided by the EU for the creation of new agricultural businesses, but only three in ten started a business from scratch in the field of agriculture, with the rest preferring to expand their business or modernise it. Thus, while the "25,000 euros for young people" scheme was devised to encourage them to return to rural areas, a ZF survey indicates most of them are small entrepreneurs who already have businesses in the field of agriculture, and not young people who give up their city jobs to work the land. The money is simple to obtain: even if EU financing does not entirely cover investments in a farm, the big advantage is that the sum of up to 25,000 euros does not have to be returned. Moreover, farmers only have to prove