Sentences with phrase «major cost of labour»

Economically speaking, the selling price of organic rice in the Ebro Delta is higher than conventional rice, and permits greater profit to farmers, in spite of the major cost of labour (organic farming of this particular system needs 25 percent more than conventional farming) and lower yields -LRB--15 percent in organic paddy fields).

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Labour says the move would save the average household # 120 and forms a major part of the party's vow to help with what it calls a «cost of living crisis».

«In 2011, in one of the first major policy announcements of his leadership, Miliband said that Labour would reduce the headline rate to # 6,000, but this did not amount to a manifesto commitment... the policy was resisted by senior figures (said to include Ed Balls, shadow universities minister Liam Byrne, and policy review co-ordinator Jon Cruddas) concerned about the estimated # 2bn cost.

If, under normal use and maintenance, a major component requires repair or replacement during this period, the cost of parts and / or labour will be covered in full.

They enjoy some key advantages — younger / faster growing populations (with far lower entitlements), labour costs that are a fraction of developed market costs, control of a major portion of the world's natural resources, low / stable debt ratios, a 50 % share of world GDP, and GDP growth expected to be twice that of developed markets.