Legislation was also passed in 1947 and 1948 which established a permanent Agricultural Wages Board to fix minimum wages for agricultural workers.

Despite those concessions, the minimum daily rate in 1991 was only US $ 1. 75 for workers employed by small agricultural enterprises and US $ 3. 15 for workers in the big exporting concerns ; most workers did not earn the minimum wage.

The primary industrial base is food processing, agricultural chemicals and a minimum and medium-security correctional facility that is capable of holding 2600 offenders.

In addition, Hu and Premier Wen Jiabao's populist policies has resulted in the elimination of agricultural taxes for farmers, more flexible policies towards migrant workers living in cities, more balanced development between the coastal regions and the hinterlands, enforcing minimum wage in cities and the promotion of sustainable and affordable housing developments.

Arévalo implemented social reforms such as minimum wage laws, increased educational funding, near-universal suffrage ( excluding illiterate women ), and labor reforms ; but many of these changes only benefited the upper-middle classes and did little for the peasant agricultural laborers that made up the majority of the population.

Tenancies granted after 18 October 2006 over agricultural land used for a trade or business will fall within the limited protection of the 1995 Act so as to enjoy ( provided the term is more than two years in length or there is a yearly tenancy ) a mandatory minimum twelve months written notice to quit, including in respect of fixed terms.

# Prodrazvyorstka – requisition of agricultural surpluses from peasants in excess of absolute minimum for centralized distribution among the remaining population.

The Corn Production Act 1917 guaranteed minimum prices for wheat and oats, specified a minimum wage for agricultural workers and established the Agricultural Wages Board, to ensure stability for farmers and a share of this stability for agricultural workers.

During his term of office, Governor King froze property taxes, reduced state spending on social programs, undertook a variety of efforts to encourage increased business and agricultural opportunities in the Commonwealth, and took a tough stand on crime by introducing mandatory minimum sentences and passing legislation to reintroduce the death penalty in Massachusetts, a measure which was later ruled unconstitutional by the state's Supreme Judicial Court.

Despite all of the different tactics used by the agricultural workers during the unrest, their principle aims were simply to attain a minimum living wage and to end rural unemployment.

The biointensive method is an organic agricultural system which focuses on maximum yields from the minimum area of land, while simultaneously improving and maintaining the fertility of the soil.

• The Agricultural Wages ( Regulation ) Act, which restored minimum wages for agricultural workers.

It introduced two years of compulsory agricultural or vocational training, officially secularized all schools and raised the minimum age of graduation from 14 to 15.

• Strict implementation of minimum wages for agricultural labours.

• Introduced several welfare schemes for teachers, non-teaching staff, Government employees, lawyers, rickshaw pullers, legal assistance to weaker sections, grant of Government employee status to 45000 chowkidars-dafadars, constitution of administrative machinery to ensure minimum wages to agricultural labourers etc.

Further, the agricultural grains arrangement provided for higher minimum trading prices as well as a food aid program to developing countries.

Critics also maintain that in densely populated areas, agricultural land exists mainly as tiny several-acre plots that barely meet the minimum lot size for ALR regulations, destroying the economy of scale of large-scale farming.

Sprengel was the first to formulate the " theory of minimum " in agricultural chemistry, meaning that plant growth is limited by the essential nutrient at the lowest concentration.

Consequently, fewer workers were employed as relatively well-paid agricultural wage earners with related benefits.

The proportion of unfree and free tenures could likewise vary greatly, with more or less reliance on wage labour for agricultural work on the demesne.

Other agricultural cultivators were of a lower status, such as tenants, wage laborers, and in rare cases slaves.

" " Research has shown ", summarises William Lazonick, " that the ' free-born Englishman ' of the eighteenth century – even those who, by force of circumstance, had to submit to agricultural wage labour – tenaciously resisted entry into the capitalist workshop.

In the model, an equilibrium is reached when the expected wage in urban areas ( actual wage adjusted for the unemployment rate ), is equal to the marginal product of an agricultural worker.

As a result, the agricultural rural wage is equal to agricultural marginal productivity.

* Let w < sub > r </ sub > be the wage rate ( marginal productivity of labor ) in the rural agricultural sector.

Kumeyaay people supported themselves by farming and agricultural wage labor ; however, a 20-year drought in the mid-20 century crippled the region's dry farming economy.

Bound to the plantation by birth approximately 90 % of Haitians were in wage earning serfdom guaranteeing a permanent self-reproducing labor force also leading to legislation prohibiting marriage between urban individuals and agricultural laborers.

Constables were paid 19 shillings a week, which was nearly twice the typical wage of an agricultural labourer in the county at that time.

Some immigrants who just arrived purchased farms and shared in this export wealth, but many poor German and Scots-Irish immigrants were forced to work as agricultural wage laborers.

The act helped bring about a substantial improvement over most of the country, with agricultural wages being quickly increased to 30 shillings a week ( a higher level in certain counties ) under the wage committees.

This was arguably a reflection of Wilson's own ideological convictions, who adhered to the classical liberal principles of Jeffersonian Democracy ( although Wilson did champion reforms such as agricultural credits later in his presidency, and called for a living wage in his last State of the Union Address ).

* Main occupations: Agriculture 34 %, agricultural farm-hands 22. 77 %, wage labourer 4. 46 %, transport 2. 18 %, weavers 2. 85 %, commerce 13. 27 %, service 7. 26 % and others 13. 21 %.

* The main occupations are: agriculture 39. 84 %, agricultural labourer 24. 13 %, wage labourer 2. 68 %, commerce 11. 99 %, service 8. 66 %, industry 1. 41 %, transport 3. 11 % and others 8. 18 %.

Following World War II falling agricultural prices, rising wage costs, death duties and a drastic reduction of the size of the demesne, the lifestyle of the 5th Earl of Enniskillen and his second wife Mary, was increasingly difficult to sustain.

The first was the commune program, which will ensure agricultural poverty for years.

Thus at the same time that William Henry Harrison was preparing to pacify the aborigines of Indiana Territory and winning fame at the battle of Tippecanoe, Anglo-Saxon settlement made a great leap into the center of the North American continent to the west of the American agricultural frontier.

Once regarded as an agricultural nuisance, psyllium was sold in the 1930's as a mechanical laxative under 117 different brands.

When Austria became a member of the European Union, the Austrian variety of the German language — limited to 23 agricultural terms — was " protected " in Protocol No 10, regarding the use of specific Austrian terms of the German language in the framework of the European Union, which forms part of the Austrian EU accession treaty.

In 2008, the world's total arable land amounted to 13, 805, 153 km², whereas 48, 836, 976 km² was classified as " agricultural land.

This was owing to bad weather, a lack of a government stimulus package, and the continuing effects of decreased agricultural subsidies by the Armenian government ( per WTO requirements ).

They encouraged farming and agriculture and taught farming and cultivation techniques, as they believed that agricultural development was the key to a stable and prosperous society.

The empire's breadbasket was the rain-fed agricultural system of northern Mesopotamia ( Assyria ) and a chain of fortresses was built to control the imperial wheat production.

The population of Akkad, like nearly all pre-modern states, was entirely dependent upon the agricultural systems of the region, which seem to have had two principal centres: the irrigated farmlands of southern Iraq that traditionally had a yield of 30 grains returned for each grain sown and the rain-fed agriculture of northern Iraq, known as " the Upper Country ".

It was this high degree of agricultural productivity in the south that enabled the growth of the highest population densities in the world at this time, giving Akkad its military advantage.

As a result, Sumer and Akkad had a surplus of agricultural products, but was short of almost everything else, particularly metal ores, timber and building stone, all of which had to be imported.

Prior to the 1950s, Alberta was a primarily agricultural economy, based on the export of wheat, beef, and a few other commodities.

The Dingo Fence was built to restrict dingo movements into agricultural areas towards the south east of the continent.

The Dingo Fence was built to restrict dingo movements into agricultural areas towards the south east of the continent.

) Bursa was also known for its fertile soil and agricultural activities, which have decreased in the recent decades due to the heavy industrialization of the city.

The loan was used to develop financial markets, improve social safety net programmes, strengthen the tax system, reform agricultural and energy sectors, and further liberalise trade.

As a Herdwick breeder she won many prizes at the local agricultural shows and was frequently asked to serve as a judge.

In 1888, when he was seven, his father ( the director of an agricultural school ) died suddenly.

Balsall Heath was agricultural land between Moseley village and the city of Birmingham until the 1850s when expansion along Moseley Road joined the two.

Growth in 1995 was estimated at 7 % because of improved agricultural production ( rice in particular ).

At first, the islands of Cape Verde housed an extensive savanna and dry forest cover, but mostly it was removed to convert to agricultural land, which, together with the arid climate and rugged terrain, has led to a soil erosion and desertification widespread.

The country's economic development was successively marked by the export of first agricultural produce, then saltpeter and later copper.

The original idea of his then Minister of Finance, Rudolf Hommes, was that the country should import agricultural products in which it was not competitive, like maize, wheat, cotton and soybeans and export the ones in which it had an advantage, like fruits and flowers.