Published 19.4.2018
Agricultural and horticultural labour force 2016
Published 19.4.2018
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.
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Other tables related to the statistics
- Number of persons who worked in agricultural and horticultural enterprises by region
- Number of persons who worked in agricultural and horticultural enterprises by production sector
- Agricultural and horticultural labour force 2000-2016
- Annual work performed in agricultural and horticultural enterprises by region
- Annual work performed in agricultural and horticultural enterprises by production sector
- Agricultural or horticultural education of the farm manager
- Vocational degree of farm manager (all vocational fields)
- Vocational education related to farm operations completed by farm manager in 2016
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