Sentences with phrase «as agriculture workers»

Undocumented workers contribute to Silicon Valley — as agriculture workers, janitors and cooks — but are often forgotten.

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So maybe the Wildrose and Derek Fildebrandt doesn't really care as much about the «family farm» as they do for the larger commercial agriculture operation that employs workers but still wants to be labelled a «family farm».

Since then agriculture, which employs more than 60 percent of the country's population, has stagnated, but the services sector has grown as corporate demand has increased in Europe and America for India's software engineers and English - speaking back - office workers.!

The conference was attended by more that 150 farmers, NGO workers, representatives from the regional Department of Agriculture, as well as students, academe and media representatives.

So while AFSA strongly supports the need to recognize agriculture as the priority activity in the Farming Zone, we see a need to offer more flexibility to enable farms to construct suitable dwellings for the rich community of workers needed to manage these systems, where those dwellings are genuinely built in support of agricultural purposes.

The combined pressures of climate change and epidemics sweeping through intensive animal agriculture such as H5N2 avian flu and porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) are growing challenges for industrial agriculture, and workers organizing to demand fair pay and conditions combined with increasing consumer pressure for greater transparency and better treatment of land, animals, and workers, are having an effect.

Some of the workers told our correspondent that fight ensued between an agriculture officer of the council, identified as Mr. Johnson Simon, and one of the herdsmen, whose cattle allegedly destroyed part of the vegetable garden.

The General Agriculture Workers Union (GAWU) has described the fired boss of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Dr Stephen Opuni, as a polarising figure.

Away from infrastructural development, the governor's giant strides in regular payment of workers» salaries and retirees» pensions, when many states are unable to pay not to talk of embarking on capital projects because of the nation's economic downturn; his remarkable achievements in other strata of the economy, such as in education, health, investment promotion, empowerment, water supply, agriculture, sports, etc, have also brought enormous goodwill to the PDP - led government in Enugu State.

Workers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will be allowed to capture and relocate the turkeys from the hospital grounds to the And - Hof Animal Sanctuary in Catskill as part of efforts to get the birds out of the borough.

Other achievements, according to the Organized Labour include, «payment of 13th Month salary as Christmas bonus to the state workers; elaborate infrastructural developments of both urban and rural areas of the state through unique fiscal management of the state's meager resources; transformation of the education, agriculture and health sectors, other areas of governance which have improved the quality of lives of the people of Enugu State; approval of payment of arrears of salaries of 731 former staff of some state parastatals and also, the regularization of 42 casual staff of the Enugu State University Teaching Hospital, Parklane Enugu, as permanent staff of the institution», among others.

As of 2006, an estimated 36 percent of the world's workers are employed in agriculture (down from 42 % in 1996), making it by far the most common occupation.

A shirtless Mexican worker closes his eyes as a cloud of DDT encircles his head — sprayed by a US Department of Agriculture official wearing a surgical mask.

A majority of workers in the coverage gap also work in industries with historically low insurance rates, such as the agriculture and service industries.