Brussels, 30/07/2013 (Agence Europe) - Between 2000 and 2012, 4.8 million full time jobs in farming disappeared in the EU, it was noted in a report from DG Agriculture, assessing the number of workers in the agricultural sector within the EU. The report analyses and compares various Eurostat data sources: Farm Structure Survey (FSS), Economic Accounts for Agriculture (EAA), National and Regional Economic Accounts, and finally Labour Force Survey (LFS).
In total, the labour force in farming...