Expanded production of labor-intensive crops increases agricultural employment

The production of labor-intensive fruit, vegetable and horticultural specialty crops increased in the 1990s, as did the employment of farmworkers: average annual employment or roughly the number of year-round equivalent jobs rose about 20%, to almost 400,000. Far more indi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Akhtar Khan, Philip Martin, Phil Hardiman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources 2004-01-01
Series:California Agriculture
Online Access:http://calag.ucanr.edu/archive/?article=ca.v058n01p35