Entrepreneurship and opportunities

THE president of the Andalucian Association of Self ­ Employed Workers (ATA), Rafael Amor, has valued the growth of self ­ employed workers in the Andalusian community, but has warned of “a difficult year at a national level.”

Almeria is the third province with the highest growth in the number of self ­ employed, with a rise of 0.4 per cent, only surpassed by Cadiz and Malaga.

In June, 257 people became self ­ employed, a trend that stands out in a national panorama where Amor denounces that the situation is “stagnating at 0 per cent” and the loss of this type of employees in provinces such as Sevilla and Jaen.

The main lines of business at a regional level are in agriculture, where in the last year 864 selfemployed workers have been incorporated, a figure that contrasts with the collapse of the data in trade, which loses 3,858 employees, and industry, with a fall of 399 people.

ATA defends that the Andalucian Government is “reducing obstacles and eliminating obstacles for the self ­ employed.

“We are going to work together with the government to make Andalucia a land of entrepreneurship, opportunities, job creation and wealth,” Amor confirmed.