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Eurostat: Malta with the lowest employment rate in agriculture
While Malta employs only 1.1% in agriculture, employment rate in market services surpasses that of EU 27 and the euro area.
Malta's employment rate in agriculture stood at 1.1% during 2011.
According to the latest Labour Force Survey issued by Eurostat - the statistical office of the European Union - the rate of persons employed in the Maltese agricultural sector stood at 1.1%.
With the average among the 27 member states standing at 5% and that of the euro area at 3.5%, Malta's 1.1% puts the country at the end of the list. Preceeding it are Luxembourg with 1.2% and Germany with 1.6%.
Romania marked the highest rate of employment in agriculture with 29%.
On the other hand, Malta stood well above average in employment of persons in the market services. While the average rate within the EU27 stood at 39.4% and the euro area at 40.2%, Malta's employment rate stood at 43.4%.
Falling within the average range, Malta registered 24.6% in industry and construction.
Employment in non-market services stood at 30.8%.
On average, in the EU 27, employees working full-time usually worked 40.4 hours a week in 2011 with women averaging 39.3 hours and men 41.1 hours.
In the case of Malta, employees marked 40.7%, with women averaging 39.2% and men 41.4%.
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And then the government and our beloved EU always state about how important is the enviorment! And the only people that really do take good care of the enviorment are the farmers who spend their entire lives working on the fields! The agriculture sector needs alot of attention, and alot of help, cause otherwise we are going to start seeing farmers going bankrupt in a very short time!! And bye bye enviorment!
