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Singh lobbied hard to get the farmland reclassified as nonagricultural and managed to obtain licenses for developing it.
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Until now the country has been able to achieve its stunning economic growth by shifting large numbers of farmers into nonagricultural jobs.
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According to the International Labor Office, the MENA region has the world's lowest share of women in nonagricultural paid employment, at around 28%.
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Another concern is the Department of Labor has administrative discretion under the new category, as it has with H-2B visas, a category for seasonal nonagricultural workers.
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The book needs over 100 pages to explain the complexities of the H-2B visa, which can be used for temporary, seasonal nonagricultural jobs, such as in resorts.
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And currently there's no good way for employers to bring many low-skilled workers to the U.S. An existing visa program for low-wage nonagricultural workers is capped at 66, 000 per year and is supposed to apply only to seasonal or temporary jobs.
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Nonagricultural goods are also good.
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Most industries don't have a good way to hire a steady supply of foreign workers because there's one temporary visa program for low-wage nonagricultural workers but it's capped at 66, 000 visas per year and is only supposed to be used for seasonal or temporary jobs.
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