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Agriculture, Statistics
Published 7.12.2009
Farm Structure Survey, 2007
Published 7.12.2009
- In 2007, farms provided the main source of employment for 145,000 people.
- Grain farms had the most employees, while dairy farms worked the most hours.
- The number of farm employees has fallen by one fifth during the 2000s.
- Farmers and their families carry out over 80 per cent of farm work.
- The most paid employees are to be found at horticultural farms.
- Foreign farm workers numbered about 15,000.
- About one third of farms also operate some other kind of business.
- The most popular type of extra business is construction contracting.
- Grain farms are most likely to operate in an additional business area.
- About 80 per cent of farms make use of computers and the Internet.
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