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Farm labour shortage: a potential crisis

Mar 24, 2000 5 mins read

OFFICIALLY, close to 85 percent of the country's population live in rural areas, a majority of them farmers, but the problem of shortage of farm labour may be as rife here as in many other developing countries, according to agriculturalists.

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