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SA agriculture grows jobs towards one million target
In the first quarter of 2015, South Africa's agriculture sector made significant headway towards meeting the target of creating one million additional jobs set for it by the National Development Plan.
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This was according to recent data, released by Stats SA. This indicated that in the first quarter of 2015, there were an estimated 183,000 more jobs in the sector than there had been in the first quarter of 2014. "Total employment in agriculture is currently estimated to be just under 900,000," said Dawie Maree, FNB Agriculture spokesperson in his analysis of Stats SA's data.
Read the full story on Farmer's Weekly
Source: Farmer's Weekly
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