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2. Employment dynamics over the last decade In this section, we look at LFS data to better understand the role of resident foreign workers ± in other words, both EU-born and non-EU born population - in the agricultural sector. Among all the limitation listed in the section above, here we would like to emphasise the fact that seasonal workers are not included in the LFS, and thus are analysed in Section 3. Workers employed in agriculture, absolute numbers (2018, by NUTS) The share of employment in agriculture over total employment is low in most Member States (Figure 1). The exceptions are Eastern European countries (Romania in particular), and some regions in Mediterranean countries, such as Greece and Spain.

Figure 1. The proportion of the labour force employed in agriculture, by NUTS, 2018

Notes: (C) EuroGeographics for the administrative boundaries. Map produced in R with the help from Eurostat-package. Source: own elaboration of EU LFS microdata.

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