Sentence examples for rural labour force from inspiring English sources

North Korea has struggled to obtain tractor fuel for more than two decades, and because the country is largely urbanised, there is not much of a rural labour force to pick up the slack.

But the true figure is probably much smaller, because government figures for the rural labour force include millions of migrants who have already moved to cities and others who work in rural industry, not farming.In addition the population is ageing: the number of workers aged between 20 and 29 fell from 233m in 1990 to 165m in 2005.

The challenges of bringing the migrant rural labour force (such as shepherds), properly within the legal framework is an important part of the integration process.

Given limits to arable and farmland, this growth in the rural labour force will not be productively absorbed into the agricultural sector.

According to local official statistics, individuals working outside the county accounted for 43percentnt of the entire county's rural labour force at the end of 2006 (Wuwei County Government, 2007).

More rural labour force have been attracted into non-agricultural employments.

Evaluation of the trend of the main indices shows that increasing slope of land use policy index (due to decrease of rural development, labour force and value added to GDP by agriculture) was less than increasing slope of HDI and even water deficit (difference between NRI and irrigation water requirement) did not encourage governments and/or farmers for considerable increase in irrigation systems.

This shows that the availability of the active labour force in rural areas is an opportunity to apply locally based adaptation strategies.

The implication is that local development plans that incorporate participation of an active labour force across rural villages may enhance sustainable income options and minimizing climate-related risks.

In the context of an increasing temporary migration of the young labour force from rural to urban areas [ 11], and the transition from extended households to nuclear households [ 12], this is especially important.

Secondly, rapid economic expansion in urban areas has created massive rural to urban movement in the labour force.