Service Module 5 Agro industries

7. Development in agriculture, industry and the services sectors

(c) Domestic servants and rural workers.

Non agricultural activities include manufacturing, trade, services and transport etc.

E. Remote sensing applications and value added services for agricultural

Approximately 2000 2500 agricultural producers use the individual agricultural counselling service annually.

In this group, 75.1 per cent work in agriculture, 4.5 per cent in industry and 20.4 per cent in the service sector.

In Latvia natural resources are included in the civil transactions and may be object of the civil law transactions.

84. The agricultural, industrial and services sectors need to be developed in a balanced manner.

Through the rural development and extension services component of the National Agricultural Services Programme

That was particularly important in the areas of special interest to developing countries in the fields of agriculture and non agricultural products and services.

In addition, 6,990 were agricultural workers, 102 non agricultural workers, 178 technicians and 82 service sector workers.

21. Thailand s Bank of Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives serves approximately 1 million micro borrowers and 3.6 million micro savers.

1 The definition of the service sector used in the present report, encompasses all non agricultural and non manufacturing industries.

Financing for women owned small agricultural or service enterprises in rural areas was available through a programme run by the Women's Agricultural Sectoral Office within the State Secretariat for Agriculture, with support from the Government of Taiwan Province of China.

The main purpose of the programme is to develop and strengthen extension services in Agriculture.

Services, agriculture and commerce and hotels all registered increases in their contribution to GDP over the same period.

In order to increase the efficiency of extension services, 12 agricultural and rural development centres have been established all over the country.

Article 149 The State encourages those insurance businesses which facilitate the development of agricultural production.

Table 14.14 confirms that more women work in services, commerce and sales, and more men in non agricultural jobs.

The sector specific services are intended to meet the requirements of the food and non food agricultural processing industries.

Some progress has been made in various areas of the negotiations agriculture, non agricultural market access, services, rules and special and differential treatment.

The principal sources of growth in the economy have been agriculture and mining, complemented by the service industry and to a smaller extent manufacturing.

(f) International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers Associations (IUF)

8. Recognizes the importance of relevant institutions providing effective mechanisms for public private agricultural advisory services as well as extension, financial and market services to farmers, in particular smallholder farmers, so that the benefits of new knowledge, agricultural innovation systems and improved technology may reach them and be used by them

VI. Integral rehabilitation of basic social services, infrastructure and agricultural areas of the country

In contrast, the agricultural and services sectors, and to a lesser extent commerce, became major sources of employment.

These estimates may be also subdivided by economic sector or branch of industry, agriculture and services.

Minister of State for Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries

Agriculture is still the major form of employment absorbing 44 percent of the workforce in 2001, compared with 19 percent for industry and 37 percent for services.

Although most developing countries still rely on agriculture for their wealth creation, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) the service sector is growing steadily.

The scope will usually be business to business services.

Operational servicesb

Against this background, women work mostly in activities connected with services, commerce and agriculture.

Services

In the Niger, IMF had required the Government to privatize its agricultural support services, in particular the trucks used to ship farm products and the extension services that gave farmers advice and conducted livestock vaccination programmes.

The information centres are beginning to extend their service to the non agricultural community, such as youth groups and social service agencies. (Source UNCTAD)

30. The majority of unemployed people in rural areas lost jobs in town, but a considerable proportion lost jobs in rural areas on state owned farms, in agricultural cooperatives and cooperatives of other economic units, in institutions connected with agriculture, in commerce or in rural services.

The services addressing the development of rural and women's entrepreneurship draw on the fact that sustainable poverty reduction requires the creation of industrial productive capacities based on a dynamic transition from agricultural to rural non farm activities.

The Cities and Villages Development Bank, the Agricultural Credit Corporation and the Cooperative Organization offer loans to farmers, in addition to cultural, sporting, religious, tourism and social development services, transport and municipal and rural services.

Farmers and forest owners also produce heat and electricity which they sell to small and medium sized enterprises in industry and the public service sector.

This applies to domestic employees or domestic servants 98 per cent of whom are women and rural workers.

Similarly, IFAD has a long standing agreement with the Investment Centre of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations for the identification and formulation of investment projects in agriculture and rural development and for other advisory services.

Women outnumber men in the commerce, services and industry branches (table 14.13), while more men are employed as day labourers in agriculture.

Thus, health service benefits are granted to all working mothers (pregnant women), also those who work on a farm, women with unemployed status and wives of the unemployed.