Service Module 5 Agro industries

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

7. Development in agriculture, industry and the services sectors

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

(c) Domestic servants and rural workers.

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

The shift of FDI to services

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

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

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

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

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.

E. Remote sensing applications and value added services for agricultural

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

Information and communication technology (ICT) can improve delivery of services, promote trade, business, governance, foreign investment, employment and rural development and ensure social inclusion of the poor.

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

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.

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

Minister of State for Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries

Through UN resident coordinators representing IFAD in field, and FAO field services (see para. 39)

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

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

In addition, the FAS used satellite imagery to monitor domestic crop production areas in support of work carried out by the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (redesignated the Farm Service Agency in October 1994).

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

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.

National FDI policies for services will have to be reflective of the country's domestic services industry, its overall economic conditions and its development objectives.

FAO has already announced that it would make its field services available to IFAD for the purposes of the GM.

The Foreign Agricultural Service of the United States Department of Agriculture routinely uses data from Landsat, Indian remote sensing satellite (IRS), satellite pour l apos observation de la Terre (SPOT) and other satellites to monitor crop conditions worldwide, focusing on drought areas.

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

FDI in services has expanded, with the world's inward stock of FDI in services quadrupling (1990 to 2002) and the share of services in the world's FDI stock rising from one quarter in the 1970s to about 60 per cent in 2002.

The poorest countries, especially those in sub Saharan Africa, need to move from subsistence to commercial agriculture, and from dependence on primary commodities to internationally competitive industries and services.

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

The Framework Agreement sets out five core areas that include, in addition to agriculture, market access on non agricultural products, services, development issues and trade facilitation.

Such policies call for increased involvement by the State in providing agricultural inputs and extension 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.

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

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.

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.

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

National institutions assisting persons interested in organizing and operating cooperatives include the United States Department of Agriculture s Cooperative Services Group, its Rural Utility Service, the Farm Credit System and the National Cooperative Bank.

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

Already, services contribute the bulk of GDP in developing countries, even in low income countries where agriculture has traditionally played a big part. Young workers who leave the farm for the cities are increasingly absorbed into urban services jobs instead of manufacturing.

It should be borne in mind, however, that INTA, among others, also provides assistance to women who are not landowners or heads of household.

The Office earns fees from services it provides to IFAD for loan administration and project supervision.

. An agreement will be concluded soon with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), which would provide the GM, through IFAD, with access to the Investment Centre and technical services.