Agricultural and horticultural labour force 2016

Data corrected on 29.3.2022
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• Agriculture and horticulture provided employment to approximately 118,000 people in 2016.
• Of this total, nearly 70% was accounted for by farmers and their family members.
•  In agriculture and horticulture, around 61,000 person-years were recorded in 2016.
• Approximately 80% of all work in agriculture and horticulture was carried out by farmers and their family members.
• More than 16,000 foreign nationals worked in agriculture and horticulture, performing nearly 6% of the work in this sector.
• The number of agricultural and horticultural employees has decreased more than 20 per cent from 2013.
• The annual workload in agriculture and horticulture has decreased by 16 per cent from 2013.
• More than 80 per cent of farmers have a vocational degree.
• Some 45 per cent of all farmers have a degree in agriculture.