Survival of farms in Veneto Region 1999-2004.

We model at a micro level farms’ survival in Veneto Region (Italy) for the period 1999- 2004. We use a new database which links information on survival histories contained in the Official Registers of the Chamber of Commerce with information on socio-economic and structural characteristics of farms and farmers collected in the 2000 Census of Agriculture. First, we consider the cohort of farms born in year 1999, then we extend the analysis to all farms registered at the end of year 1999. We find that the model performs quite well in selecting farms with a high probability of survival.