{"id":11921,"date":"2023-10-26T20:46:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T19:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.agriculturelore.com\/?p=11921"},"modified":"2023-10-26T20:46:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T19:46:04","slug":"how-agriculture-creates-employment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agriculturelore.com\/how-agriculture-creates-employment\/","title":{"rendered":"How Agriculture Creates Employment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Agriculture is an important way to create and keep employment. By deploying best practices and modern technology, it can create meaningful work for many rural communities. From farming, horticulture, and animal husbandry to fishing, agriculture-related jobs are important sources of organized labor and can generate substantial economic returns for their contributors. <\/p>\n

Beyond direct employment, agriculture plays a significant part in secondary jobs, such as manufacturing and distribution of agricultural products. Additionally, farmers also provide important services to their local communities, such as maintaining and improving the land they work on, providing educational and environmental resources and providing a source of commodities. <\/p>\n

As more and more companies focus on global sourcing and connect to rural livelihoods, they provide opportunities to small-scale farmers, who in turn create employment. By connecting to bigger markets through processing, packaging and distribution, incomes prospects of small holders improve. In addition, new and innovative technologies, such as sustainable farming, organic farming, and agroforestry, give these smallholder producers further opportunities to increase their incomes and improve their productivity.<\/p>\n

The benefits of agriculture, when done responsibly, can extend far beyond the community. This can include increasing the tax base, revitalizing local business, and providing a better quality of life for individuals, which in turn can help to stabilize communities and support larger economic development activities.<\/p>\n