Rural contractor staffing – Challenges and solutions

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Rural contractor staffing – Challenges and solutions

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Contribution to GDP and communities. There are over 7,000 rural contracting companies in New Zealand providing a range of services, including cultivation, harvesting, forage-making, shearing, fencing, ditch cleaning, hedge trimming, and fertiliser and chemical application, and as such are an important part of the rural economy. Not only do they contribute nearly as much to GDP as the forestry industry, but their contribution is also growing by around 6% per year. Rural contractors make a sign...

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Research Paper

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Journal article

Date created

2023-12

Creator

Smith, Daniel

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https://hdl.handle.net/10182/16869

Related subjects

Sustainable agricultural development / Agricultural economics / Workforce planning / Labour economics / Farm management, rural management and agribusiness

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