Task 2 finding compelling news stories

 The article we found :

https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/Full-time-farmers-are-a-dying-breed.400920?fbclid=IwAR27nLaRCJT0bQ7-QUj3U1OdSdw1IHRgF_CNx-P-FUbz7fLG2RVxnJvQHKI

Times of Malta Article: Full-Time farmers are a dying breed

Farmers that spend the day working in their fields are decreasing as part-time employment increased up to 37%. The majority of the farmers have shifted from full time to part-time as income has decreased and decided to do something else in life, keeping farming as a part-time job. In 2010, the census agriculture has released numbers stating that full-time farmers dropped by 15 per cent, with 18,539 now all working as part-timers.

Farmers have made these necessary changes due to the fact that income from farming has decreased a lot, where all the work is not worth for the money they receive. The latest agriculture data was checked back in 2010, where it showed that stocks of sheep and goats have increased but cattle, pigs and broilers decreased.

These low numbers could have been affected by the regulations installed in 2004 when Malta joined the European Union. Land utilized for agriculture increased by 19 per cent, going up to 11,453 hectares.

in these past years, agricultural holdings have increased by 4.8 per cent (11,959 to 12,529).

Most of the agricultural workers are men with 3,940 women.

The cattle population is around 16,000, almost 45 per cent of these were dairy cows.

The pig population is around 71,000.

The sheep population are around 11,900.

The numbers of sheep and goats combined are around 16,000.

Around 1.2 million poultry heads were certified.

These numbers are very important to our agricultural purposes as they are the ones that keep the local farmers doing their job in the best possible way.

Another article we found is this one :

https://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2020-09-16/local-news/Agriculture-is-turning-into-a-part-time-hobby-due-to-lack-of-land-for-young-farmers-Marsovin-CEO-6736226982?fbclid=IwAR0o-LELH26LmNV8w9PnCommgklTcG36ms1e1TNOrRdF7i0RBxKSDna8BiY

This article explains how some subsidies given by Europe may actually discourage farmers to work as full-timers however it focuses on wine agriculture.

Written by Ryan Cauchi





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