11/05/2010
Four million workers left agriculture in the EU between 2000 and 2009. Why has there has been a 25 per cent slump in farm workers while incomes from agriculture have risen?
4 million workers left agriculture in the EU between 2000 and 2009. Farming Today asks why there has been a 25% slump in farm workers while incomes from agriculture have risen.And honey bee numbers have fallen twice as fast in the UK as they have in Europe over the last twenty years according to a recent study carried out by Reading University.
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