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Agriculture is the most dangerous industry for young workers, accounting for 42% of all work-related fatalities of young workers in the U.S. between 1992 and 2000. Unlike other industries, half the young victims in agriculture were under age 15. [40]
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Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles H. Bronson has announced the recipients of $25 million in renewable energy grants. The 12 entities chosen were among 76 vying for the awards, which were funded by the Florida Legislature last spring. The grants are part of Bronson’s “Farm to Fuel” initiative, a program designed to get Florida’s agriculture industry to produce 25 percent of the state’s energy needs by the year 2025 in an effort to reduce Florida’s dependency on foreign oil and to keep land in agriculture. more
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Agriculture ranks among the most hazardous industries. [38] Farmers are at high risk for fatal and nonfatal injuries, work-related lung diseases, noise-induced hearing loss, skin diseases, and certain cancers associated with chemical use and prolonged sun exposure. Farming is one of the few industries in which the families (who often share the work and live on the premises) are ... at risk for injuries, illness, and death.
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Agriculture, forestry, and fishing is dominated by three large occupations—farmers and ranchers; farm, ranch, and other agricultural managers; and farmworkers. Together these occupations make up almost 95 percent of the industry sector. Among wage and salary workers, the single most common occupation was farmworkers, who made up about 46 percent of the entire sector (table 2). The industry sector ... employs a number of other occupations that help support the industry.
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The FINANCIAL TIMES (UK) reports biotechnology, including genetic modification, must have more government money behind the effort if it is to yield significant benefits to the developing world, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization said. That gives the strongest support yet from the FAO to the possible benefits of biotechnology but stressed that a cautious crop-by-crop approach and more funding by national governments were crucial. So far, investment by the private biotech industry, totaling $3 billion a year, had been concentrated mostly on four commodity crops: cotton, soya, maize and canola, or rapeseed. Jacques Diouf, the FAO director-general, said: "Neither the private nor the public sector has invested significantly in new genetic technologies for the so-called 'orphan crops' such as cowpea, millet, sorghum and teff crops considered critical to the food supply and livelihoods of the world's poorest people.
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