Despite its many other problems, Indonesia should get an even bigger boost from farming this year.
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After falling steadily in the early 1990s, the numbers of Brazilians employed in farming rose last year by 6.3%, to 17.4m.
The sort of loss that climate change inflicts in a decade is often the sort of gain that better farming brings in a year.
Coupled with a three-year drought, that makes farming hard, even in a fertile region.
The result could help persuade Honda to field three riders next year, as opposed to farming the Italian out to the satellite Gresini team.
For its part, in May the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) will present the results of a two-year project to promote the farming-for-consumption of some 2.000 edible insect species.
But this year, it is not enough for farming.
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The visit to the South West is designed to highlight two of the region's most important industries - farming and tourism - that were both badly affected by last year's foot-and-mouth outbreak.
One area of the economy that is undeniably stagnant is farming, which will probably grow by just 2.6% this year.
He was the only one among his farming companions to make it back to Japan before the end of the year.
According to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, all sectors, apart from poultry farming, saw incomes drop by between 11% and 52% last year.
Personally I think Urban Farming is a concept that is going to get a lot of play next year.
Gwyn Howells, chief executive of Meat Promotion Wales, told BBC Radio 4's Farming Today he expected to see a reduced number of Welsh lambs going to market this year.
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Some industries such as banking are fairly well along in making computer systems year-2000 compliant, but others, including food processing, agriculture and farming, some government services, construction, law, and medical practice are lagging, Marcoccio said.
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In the same year 2, 900 of the 2.16m workers toiling in other branches of Brazilian farming died.
This is not all that much different from farming practice in developed countries, where growers have long been used to buying new hybrid seed every year.
Part of the reason for this decline is that many toads become homeless each year as wild ponds are lost due to road building, development, pollution, intensive farming and drought.
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More detailed spending plans are expected in the autumn, but as Brussels braces itself for a year of tough budget negotiations, what could this mean for billions of pounds of EU payments to farming communities and structural funding for the poorest parts of Wales?
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